The Field that Rends the Light
Do magnetars have flux ropes that look like giant muscular arms? No, but they have some magnetic arches with the muscle to rip light apart!
Catching a Neutron Star Collision on Camera
A bright flash of high-energy gamma rays heralds the merger of two dense neutron stars. What’s left behind? For the first time, authors have detected a follow-up radio burst which may hint at the nature of the merger’s remnant.
Meet the AAS Keynote Speakers: Prof. Renee Ludlam
We interviewed Prof. Renee Ludlam of Wayne State University to learn all about neutron stars ahead of her plenary talk at #AAS243!
The bright future for Neutron Star–Black Hole mergers
Today’s authors discuss prospects for observing neutron star – black hole mergers in multiple messengers!
UR: Analyzing Orbits of Black Widow Pulsars
In the latest of our Undergrad Research series, discover how Justine Singleton fit different pulsar lightcurves as part of NANOGrav.
Could spinning soup start starquakes and explain a magnetar mystery?
Neutron stars likely contain a quark soup center, and the authors of today’s paper seek to see if the process of neutrons being crushed into this quark soup could explain the unexplained fast radio burst phenomenon.