"It is remarkable to imagine that the material of this [wedding] band was made in a collision of two neutron stars, each having the size of a city and the mass of the sun," theoretical physicist ...

In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...

An international team of astrophysicists from China and Australia has for the first time determined how massive neutron stars ...

Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for a process that had previously only been theorised. The study provides new ...