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NASA's retired Compton mission reveals superheavy neutron stars
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Astronomers studying archival observations of powerful explosions called short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have detected light patterns indicating the brief existence of a superheavy neutron star shortly before it collapsed into a black hole. This fleeting, massive object likely formed from the
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NASA missions probe game-changing cosmic explosion
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
On Dec. 11, 2021, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a blast of high-energy light from the outskirts of a galaxy around 1 billion light-years away. The event has rattled scientists' understanding of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most powerful ev
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Cosmic chocolate pralines, general neutron star structure revealed: Resear
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
So far, little is known about the interior of neutron stars, those extremely compact objects that can form after the death of a star: the mass of our sun or even more is compressed into a sphere with the diameter of a large city. Since their discovery more than 60 years ago, scientists have
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Astrologers finally find general neutron star structure
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
So far, little is known about the interior of neutron stars, those extremely compact objects that can form after the death of a star: the mass of our sun or even more is compressed into a sphere with the diameter of a large city.
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Polarized X-rays reveal shape, orientation of extremely hot matter around
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Researchers' recent observations of a stellar-mass black hole called Cygnus X-1 reveal new details about the configuration of extremely hot matter in the region immediately surrounding the black hole.
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Rare Earth elements synthesis confirmed in neutron star mergers: Study
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A group of researchers has, for the first time, identified rare earth elements produced by neutron star mergers. Details of this milestone were published in The Astrophysical Journal on October 26, 2022.
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Explosive neutron star merger captured for the first time in millimeter li
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 3 (ANI): Scientists have recorded millimeter-wavelength light from a fiery explosion caused by the merger of a neutron star with another star. The team also confirmed this flash of light to be one of the most energetic short-duration gamma-ray bursts ever observed, le
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Scientists detect gravitational waves for first time from black holes swal
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 29 (ANI): For the first time, scientists detected gravitational waves caused by mergers between black holes and neutron stars. The team of researchers detected the two gravitational-wave events--from distances of more than 900 million light-years away--within a span of
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New study shows colliding neutron stars may unlock mysteries of universe e
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Florida [US], July 8 (ANI): The National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has proven itself instrumental in another major astronomical discovery.
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Astronomers discover neutron star- a remarkable cosmic baby
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], June 18 (ANI): Astronomers discovered a remarkable neutron star known as Swift J1818.0-1607, which according to the new study is only about 240 years old -- a veritable newborn by cosmic standards.
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Astronomers capture a pulsar 'Powering Up'
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Melbourne [Australia], June 2 (ANI): A Monash-University-led collaboration has, for the first time, observed the full 12-day process of material spiralling into a distant neutron star, triggering an X-Ray outburst thousands of times brighter than our Sun.
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Study finds measurements of neutron stars
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 10 (ANI): An international research team led by members of Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics has obtained new measurements of how big neutron stars are.
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