Space is an endless void of mysterious unknowns, and one particularly alluring enigma concerns the point at which neutron stars take on too much mass and collapse into black holes as a result.

Neutron stars explained through stellar remnants and collapsed stars, revealing extreme density, gravity, magnetism, and ...

A distant neutron star has abruptly erupted in brightness, surging to roughly one hundred times its usual output and leaving astronomers scrambling to explain what could drive such a violent change.

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A: The quick answer to your question is yes, they can gain matter. However, only a small fraction of neutron stars can gain mass — those in binary systems, where mass is transferred from the companion ...

Astrophysicists are combining multiple methods to reveal the secrets of some of the weirdest objects in the universe. Neutron stars are arguably the strangest objects in the cosmos. Born from the ...

What's in a neutron star? Well, neutrons, obviously. However, despite the deceptively simple label, the inner working of neutron stars remain elusive, partly because their basic properties, such as ...

New insights into the properties of neutron stars have come from two independent analyses of gravitational waves from the GW170817 neutron-star merger. The work was done by teams led by Farrukh ...

Massive merger: illustration of gravitational waves from a neutron-star merger Data from the recent observation of gravitational waves from the merger of a binary neutron star have been used to place ...

A new study showing how the explosion of a stripped massive star in a supernova can lead to the formation of a heavy neutron star or a light black hole resolves one of the most challenging puzzles to ...

Using a pioneering method, researchers have found a neutron star of about 2.3 Solar masses -- one of the most massive ever detected. Neutron stars (often called pulsars) are stellar remnants that have ...