Published on: 2025-06-06 16:55:13
When a black hole and a neutron star finally meet, the result is cosmic carnage—and now, thanks to Caltech’s latest supercomputer simulations, we’re getting a front-row seat to the whole terrifying show. In a new pair of studies published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, researchers led by Caltech astrophysicist Elias Most ran the most detailed simulations to date of neutron star–black hole mergers. These violent events are some of the most extreme in the universe, and the new work reveals
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A team of researchers in China have discovered a stunning binary system in which a stellar object known as a pulsar orbited inside the outer layers of its companion star — which it accomplished after stripping its host's innards and dispersing them into space. The findings, detailed in a new study published in the journal Science, are an incredibly rare example of a "spider star" that preys on its companion, so-named because of the female arachnids that devour males after mating. And tantalizin
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If you look at the Milky Way through a powerful telescope, you’ll notice that close to the center of the galaxy there are elongated filaments that seem to outline its spiral shape. Scientists have a nickname for these structures: “galactic bones.” Recently, astronomers found that one of the Milky Way’s bones is “fractured,” and they believe they’ve now found a possible culprit: a neutron star that may have collided with it. According to NASA, these bones are huge elongated formations of energiz
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In the mid 19th century, a strange idea was growing heavy in the ether: There might be dimensions beyond the three we experience. To some—including eminent scientists of the day—these were the realms of spirits and the supernatural, accessed through tabletop seances. To Charles Hinton, a British mathematician and science-fiction writer at the time, it was something that could be puzzled out, modeled in things like his “tesseract” four-dimensional cube. In the intervening century and a half, spi
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This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Various techniques give values for the ratio of the speed of sound c s squared to the square of the speed of light as it varies with isospin chemical potential. NLO χPT: next-to-leading order chiral perturbation theory; pQCD: perturbative quantum chromodynamics; LQCD: lattice quantum chromodynamics; GP: Gaussian proc
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A team of researchers just introduced a new way of detecting gravitational wave sources that they posit could vastly improve precision of detections and expedite the detection of such enigmatic events. The team’s research, published today in the journal Nature, outlines an algorithm to study neutron star mergers’ gravitational wave emissions. Once identified, astronomers around the world could be notified of the event, allowing experts to collect as much information as possible about the fleeti
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