Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

These are rare occurrences—scientists estimate that the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy gobbles a star ...

A groundbreaking simulation reveals how neutron star mergers forge black holes, generate gamma-ray bursts, and scatter gold ...

More information: Kota Hayashi et al, Jet from Binary Neutron Star Merger with Prompt Black Hole Formation, Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.211407 ...

A computer simulation shows how two neutron stars of unequal mass merge, form a black hole and spit out a jet of high energy matter.

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have instead ...

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black hole, it gets torn apart in a fireworks show called a tidal disruption ...

A pulsar is typically a rapidly rotating neutron star that emits beams of radiation, visible across vast distances. In a black hole pulsar, however, the black hole itself replaces the neutron star.

Astronomers from the University of Turku have detected quasi-periodic oscillations in an X-ray binary, XTE J0111.2−7317, ...