The BOAT is the ruler of all gamma-ray bursts, releasing as much energy in seconds as the sun will in 10 billion years — and ...

If astronomers could catch bursts of gamma rays from the supernova explosions that create neutron stars near the Milky Way, the mystery of dark matter could be wrapped up in 10 seconds.

The neutron star stayed hidden for 37 years while lurking in the wreckage of a stellar explosion, Supernova 1987A. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have ended a nearly ...

“There is no other object like the neutron star in Supernova 1987A, so close to us and having formed so recently. Because the material surrounding it is expanding, we will see more of it as time ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed the best evidence yet for emission from a neutron star at the site of a well-known and recently observed supernova known as SN 1987A.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has found the best evidence yet for emission from a neutron star at the site of a recently observed supernova. The supernova, known as SN 1987A, was a core ...

When stars go supernova, one of two outcomes happens. The core either becomes a neutron star or it collapses into a black hole. The star’s fate depends on its mass as well as the mass of the core.

With Supernova 1987A, the star's size and the neutrino burst's duration had suggested the remnant would be a neutron star, but this had not been confirmed through direct evidence.

That's because astronomers have discovered that this magnetar, which is a special type of highly magnetic neutron star, wasn't actually born in a nearby supernova as previously theorized ...

A descending gravitational wave chirp would unambiguously identify a supernova-buried stellar remnant as a black hole, as this is the only cosmic beast capable of chirping like this; neutron stars ...

What remained after the ultra-stripped supernova was a dense remnant known as a neutron star, which now orbits the rapidly rotating massive star. The stellar pair will remain in a stable ...

Gamma rays emerging from neutron stars at the hearts of supernova explosions could solve the mystery of dark matter — in just 10 seconds. That is, if dark matter is composed of axions, which are ...