"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

On the outskirts of the Milky Way, one of the rarest kinds of stars in the galaxy has just become even more mysterious than ...

Neutron stars can have a resounding impact around ... With no outward pressure from fusion to counterbalance gravity's inward pull, the star condenses and collapses in upon itself.

A novel way to find aliens might be through gravitational wave detection, Loeb says. He is interested in laser interferometry ...

Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

A team of scientists has confirmed the existence of a solitary black hole drifting through the Milky Way, unaccompanied by ...

A machine learning method has the potential to revolutionize multi-messenger astronomy. Detecting binary neutron star mergers ...

Scientists have been left stunned after stumbling across a lone black hole drifting through space. It's not every day ...

Neutron star mergers are collisions between neutron stars, the collapsed cores of what were once massive supergiant stars. These mergers are known to generate gravitational waves, energy-carrying ...

In a landmark discovery, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a solitary stellar-mass black hole—an object with ...

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...