STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State physicist has achieved a significant scientific advancement, producing a direct laboratory measurement of a key nuclear reaction believed to occur during ...

Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of physics.

A newly analyzed gravitational-wave event has revealed something unexpected about one of the Universe’s most violent ...

The far future of the cosmos may be less endless than it once appeared. New calculations place the decay of the universe’s ...

As binary neutron stars spiral around each other to merge, their gravitational tidal forces distort each other's shape and structure, potentially revealing clues as to what lies within them.

How do black holes and neutron stars get closer before merging? Their orbits were until now assumed to be circular, with a ...

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Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of atomic nuclei, and they possess some of the strongest gravitational fields of ...

Neutron stars—the dense remnants of massive stellar explosions—and their presence in X‐ray binaries serve as natural laboratories for extreme physics. In these systems, matter is transferred from a ...

A neutron star and black hole were detected merging along an unusual oval orbit, challenging long-held theories about how ...