How to Glo up: Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers
What does the merger of a neutron star with a black hole look like? Here’s a systematic study of how neutron star properties affect the electromagnetic emission from the merger.
Radio Pulsars: How Slow Do They Go?
The discovery of the slowest rotating radio pulsar, PSR J0250+5854, has scientists wondering – how slow do radio pulsars spin?
A Strange Type of Matter May Lie at the Heart of Neutron Stars
A mysterious type of matter, quark-gluon plasma, may lie at the heart of neutron stars.
Testing Einstein’s Equivalence Principle by Timing a Pulsar in a Stellar Triple System
PSR J0337+1715, a millisecond pulsar in a hierarchical stellar triple system with two white dwarfs, provides a stringent test of gravity via Einstein’s strong equivalence principle!
Tiny Stars in a Tiny Orbit: A New Ultracompact Binary
The discovery of the record-setting 38 minute orbit of IGR J17062-6143 makes it the fastest known accreting milllisecond pulsar orbiting in binary system!
Magnetar Madness in Super Luminous Supernovae
Today’s paper explores whether magnetars could be the instigator behind some strange supernovae.