The collision and merger of two neutron stars—the incredibly dense remnants of collapsed stars—are some of the most energetic ...

In a recent study published in Nature Astronomy, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered an extraordinary white dwarf star, named WD 0525+526. Unlike typical white dwarfs, which ...

New simulations show that neutrino flavor transformations change both the composition and the signals left behind after neutron star collisions. When two neutron stars collide and merge, the result is ...

Scientists in the United States have discovered the biggest-known merger of two black holes using gravitational wave detectors. The scientific findings from the collision, which was recorded in ...

On Sept. 14, 2015, physicists attained the long-sought goal of detecting gravitational waves, the shockwaves spewed out by such cataclysmic events as the violent merger of two black holes. Now, in the ...