Neutron stars

The search for the missing gravitational signal

SpaceMarch 28, 2023

A new SISSA study proposes an array of interferometers in space.

Scientists identified rare earth elements produced by neutron star mergers

SpaceOctober 28, 2022

Rare earth elements synthesis confirmed in neutron star mergers.

Mountains on neutron stars are only a fraction of a millimeter tall

SpaceJuly 19, 2021

These results show how neutron stars truly are remarkably spherical objects.

New method to classify all gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)

SpaceJuly 18, 2020

Separating Gamma-Ray Bursts

Scientists found gravitational-wave candidates from binary black hole mergers in public LIGO/Virgo data

SpaceMarch 14, 2020

In collaboration with the international colleagues, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI), have published their second Open...

How black holes and neutron stars shine bright?

SpaceNovember 30, 2019

It is the interplay of turbulence and reconnection of super-strong magnetic fields.

Scientists detected two supermassive black holes on collision course with each other

SpaceJuly 11, 2019

Around 2.5 billion light-years away from Earth, Princeton scientists detected two supermassive black holes on a collision course. Each black hole's mass is more than...

Two neutron stars collided near the solar system billions of years ago

SpaceMay 3, 2019

A growing body of evidence indicates that binary neutron-star mergers are the primary origin of heavy elements produced exclusively through rapid neutron capture. As...

Scientists uncover new properties of black holes

SpaceDecember 5, 2018

The National Science Foundation’s LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) and the European-based VIRGO gravitational wave detectors have detected gravitational waves from a total of 10...

Gravitational waves provide dose of reality about extra dimensions

SpaceSeptember 15, 2018

The earlier discovery of gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars was groundbreaking. But it fails to add extra dimensions to our understanding of the universe. A new...