Neutron Stars are Back on the Menu, Boys!
Have you ever wondered where gold comes from? What if it came from the bits of neutron star flesh that dribbled out from a black hole’s maw as it ate the neutron star alive?
Have you ever wondered where gold comes from? What if it came from the bits of neutron star flesh that dribbled out from a black hole’s maw as it ate the neutron star alive?
How do neutron stars acquire such strong magnetic fields? Why do these fields differ between pulsars and magnetars? Today’s paper suggests that *convective dynamos* may be at play.
Do you want to look through half a million sources by hand? Neither did these astronomers. Here’s how they took a shortcut – and found four new neutron stars.
Today’s paper investigates a mysterious stellar explosion that resulted when a black hole or a neutron star crashed into a star.
A new massive pulsar binary system has been found, but could it be an elusive double neutron star system?
Astronomers might have another tool for follow-up observations of merging neutron stars.