September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
... can be grouped into two categories: FRBs are either caused by relatively rare explosive collisions between old neutron stars or white dwarfs, or they are more common, periodic outbursts or flares from younger, rapidly spinning pulsars. The...
25 November 2016
New search shows no link between gravitational waves and gamma-ray bursts
... coincident signals. However, as with the larger search, no evidence connecting GWs with GRBs for either a binary neutron star or a neutron star-black hole merger was found. For more information on this research, see; https://arxiv.org/pdf...
06 January 2016
High-Energy X-rays show Andromeda Galaxy in a different light
... X-ray view of this enigmatic spiral galaxy, by observing 40 ‘X-Ray binaries.’ X-Ray binaries are comprised of a black hole or neutron star that feeds off a stellar companion and these energetic objects are thought to play a crucial role in heating...
14 November 2016
Mysterious Quark Nova lights up an exploding star for a second time
... of nuclear fuel and it collapses under its own gravity. What is left after a star has gone supernova is the smallest and densest star known to exist – a neutron star. So how does this tie in with a Quark-Nova? A quark-nova is a hypothetical...
31 January 2020
Einsteins prediction of 'draggable' space-time confirmed by stellar binary system
... and the other is a neutron star. A neutron star is the collapsed core of a giant star and these small but ultradense ...started to suspect that the interaction between the white dwarf and neutron star was not as simple as had been assumed to date,’ ...
08 June 2020
New discovery provides important clues on mysterious cosmic bursts
... in the burst activity could imply that the powerful bursts are linked to the orbital motion of a massive star, a neutron star or a black hole. So now what? Understanding one of the current great mysteries of astronomy generally means you are...
