The study of neutron stars and black holes is a fascinating area of astrophysics that explores some of the most extreme conditions in the universe. Neutron stars are incredibly dense remnants of ...

Thorne-Żytkow objects that we haven't yet seen. There is, however, more to learn about these stars and the cosmos.

A dead galaxy, over 11 billion years old, has surprised astronomers with powerful radio bursts. Once thought to be lifeless, ...

X-ray binaries (XRBs) are fascinating astronomical systems that consist of a normal star and a compact object, such as a black hole or neutron star. In these systems, the compact object pulls ...

There is plenty of evidence of these natal kicks for neutron stars, as we observe them moving at large speeds throughout the Milky Way. However, for the most massive compact objects known, black holes ...

That’s why all detections so far have been collisions between black holes or neutron stars. Those events are akin to throwing a pebble in a pond, but there are vibrations all the time.

This black hole is situated in the galaxy WISEA J122045.05+493304.7 and consumed one star from a binary star system, which has caused a rare double-flash tidal disruption event (TDE). Unlike most ...

But it likely won't fall in. An artist's rendering of a white dwarf star speeding around the black hole 1ES 1927+654. A stream of particles trails the dense star. Credit: Aurore Simonnet / Sonoma ...

Core package to analyze gravitational-wave data, find signals, and study their parameters. This package was used in the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW150914), and is used in the ...

Now, though, NASA has actually watched a black hole eat a star. To get a good view of the event, NASA used multiple of its space telescopes to observe the black hole as it ate the star.

This suggests that NGC 5084 is host to a supermassive black hole tipped on its side, and scientists think it could be evidence of a galactic collision ... of billions of stars slowly in orbit ...