While the life cycle of stars is well understood, there are still many mysteries surrounding their collapse and spectacular ...

Neutron stars are some of the densest stellar objects in the universe. Scientists have theorized that the core’s extreme ...

University of Copenhagen astrophysicists help explain a mysterious phenomenon, whereby stars suddenly vanish from the night ...

"The capture and annihilation of dark matter in neutron stars would provide a source of heating that stops the star from getting really cold." Scientists posit that some dead stars made from the ...

Einstein@Home uses volunteer computing to discover neutron stars. Join by downloading the BOINC app and adding the ...

Astrophysicists at the University of Copenhagen's Niels Bohr Institute have shed light on a star that suddenly vanished from ...

The "wobbling" remains of a star that suffered a grisly death at the maw of a supermassive black hole has helped reveal the ...

There is a problem (or not, for fans of being alive) within physics, in that the universe appears finely tuned for life – at ...

A new study in Physical Review Letters explores the conditions of black hole formation from dying stars, particularly the ...

“And this fabric can support, like the surface of a pond, waves that are generated by catastrophic events such as colliding ...

And if you wanted the perfect prop for that movie, you’d want to straight-up steal the whiteboard hanging in the office of ...

In January 2024, the European Space Agency formally adopted the space-based Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, or LISA, ...