An advanced new three-dimensional (3D) computer simulation of the light emitted following a merger of two neutron stars has produced a similar sequence of spectroscopic features to an observed ...
The gold in your jewelry and the uranium in nuclear power plants share a common and cataclysmic origin: they were born during ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist’s impression of a neutron star merger. (CREDIT: Dana Berry, SkyWorks Digital, Inc.) Some of the universe’s heaviest ...
A machine learning-powered simulation is giving researchers a new window into the processes that create some of the universe’s heaviest elements.
An international team of astronomers has detected a new kilonova associated with a nearby gamma-ray burst (GRB) known as GRB 211211A. The finding, reported in a paper published April 22 on arXiv.org, ...
When neutron stars collide, they produce an explosion that, contrary to what was believed until recently, is shaped almost like a perfect sphere. Although how this is possible is still a mystery, the ...
When stars collide, the result is often explosive. That’s especially true when those objects are a pair of super dense stellar remnants known as neutron stars. The fireworks show, called a kilonova, ...
An advanced new three-dimensional (3D) computer simulation of the light emitted following a merger of two neutron stars has produced a similar sequence of spectroscopic features to an observed ...
Some of the universe’s heaviest elements are born in chaos, in matter flung outward when neutron stars collide or massive stars explode. But one stubborn problem has limited how well scientists can ...