Neutron stars, these cosmic remnants resulting from the catastrophic explosion of massive stars, represent one of the most mysterious objects in our Universe. Their extreme density and internal ...
On Oct. 16, astronomers announced that they had viewed a cosmic event, the collision of two neutron stars, through both light and gravitational waves. Over a thousand scientists working with LIGO, the ...
One of the four missions at DOE’s High Flux Isotope Reactor is neutron scattering, a research technique used to study matter at the atomic scale. These neutrons are produced at HFIR through fission, ...
Researchers have discovered that the neutron star in the binary system 4U 1820-30 rotates at an astonishing speed of 716 times per second, making it one of the fastest-spinning objects ever observed ...