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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Supernova simulations show that low-mass star in binary system J0453+1559 could be a neutron star Mar 11, 2025 Using gravitational waves to observe thermal effects in binary neutron star mergers ...

Gravity from mountains on rapidly rotating neutron stars produces ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) searches for ...