The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

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A record-shattering stellar blast has been caught on camera in unprecedented detail, and the footage is forcing astronomers ...

Binary neutron star mergers occur millions of light-years away from Earth. Interpreting the gravitational waves they produce ...

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Caltech astronomer Mansi Kasliwal and her colleagues were not expecting to chase a mystery that blurred the line between a supernova and a kilonova. Yet that is where the evidence has led after an ...

New simulations of neutron star mergers reveal that the mixing and changing of tiny particles called neutrinos impacts how the merger unfolds, including the composition and structure of the merger ...

Rochester Institute of Technology is advancing computer simulations to predict, for the first time, the complete cycle of neutron stars merging with other neutron stars or black holes. These extreme ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. A bright blast of X-rays from a source in a distant galaxy has led astronomers to a fascinating discovery. Neutron stars are dense stellar objects ...