A massive star goes supernova giving birth to a pair of neutron stars. The orbiting stars merge creating a kilonova. Credit: ...

The physics of neutron stars are almost too fantastic to believe: something the weight of two suns compacted to a sphere the ...

An important breakthrough in how we can understand dead star collisions and the expansion of the Universe has been made by an international team, led by the University of East Anglia. They have ...

Neutron stars are some of the most extreme objects in the universe. Formed from the collapsed cores of supergiant stars, they weigh more than our Sun and yet are compressed into a sphere the size of a ...