The transformation of neutrinos in a neutron star merger could be crucial to shaping the way events of the collision unfold. For the first time, a team of physicists has simulated how neutrinos change ...

The collision and merger of two neutron stars—the incredibly dense remnants of collapsed stars—are some of the most energetic events in the universe, producing a variety of signals that can be ...

The international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration reports the observations of two record-breaking events in gravitational wave ...

Artistic impression of a neutron star collision leaving behind a rapidly expanding cloud of radioactive material. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, CI Lab Artistic impression of a neutron star ...

Astronomers may have recorded the violent birth of one of the weirdest objects our Universe is capable of producing. In a bizarre gamma-ray space explosion whose light reached Earth in 2023, a team ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. A bright burst of X-rays has been discovered by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in a galaxy 6.6 billion light years from Earth. This event likely ...

Astronomers have long searched for ways to detectdark matter, the elusive substance believed to make up most of the ...

New simulations of neutron star mergers reveal that the mixing and changing of tiny particles called neutrinos impacts how the merger unfolds, including the composition and structure of the merger ...