Astronomers have detected a neutron star collision in an unexpected place, deep within a tiny, faint galaxy. Located about 4.7 billion light-years away, this collision occurred within a vast gas ...

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, astronomers have traced a short-duration gamma-ray burst event called GRB 230906A to a faint dwarf galaxy embedded in a vast stream of ...

The catastrophic collision of a black hole and a neutron star sent ripples across the universe. New analysis of those ripples could upend a major theory about how these extreme pairs form.

A fleet of NASA missions has likely uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy buried in a huge stream of gas. Astronomers have never seen this type of explosive event in an ...

Scientists have uncovered the first robust evidence of a black hole and neutron star crashing together but orbiting in an ...

A recently detected flash of energy appears to have emanated from the wreckage of colliding galaxies, according to an international team of astronomers led by Penn State scientists. The burst, known ...

A recently detected flash of energy appears to have emanated from the wreckage of colliding galaxies, according to an ...

Some of the universe’s densest objects can twist, stretch, and resonate in ways that challenge even the most seasoned physicists. Neutron stars, the remnants of massive stars that have exploded as ...

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Rochester Institute of Technology researchers played a significant role in an international announcement today that has changed the future of astrophysics. The breakthrough discovery of colliding ...

Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of ...