Neutron star mergers are among the most extreme events in the Universe. A recent simulation shows that the cataclysm begins well in advance. Indeed, a chaotic ballet of their magnetic fields is ...
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, astronomers have traced a short-duration gamma-ray burst event called GRB 230906A to a faint dwarf galaxy embedded in a vast stream of ...
Astronomers analyzing the gravitational-wave signal from a 2020 collision between a black hole and a neutron star report evidence that the pair spiraled together on an oval-shaped orbit, rather than a ...
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