If this core is massive enough, it may form a black hole, which has such a powerful gravitational pull that not even light can escape. A less massive core will form a neutron star, so named ...

Neutron stars pack an extremely strong gravitational pull, much greater than Earth's. This gravitational strength is particularly impressive because of the stars' small size. When they are formed ...

The current generation of gravitational wave detectors could "hear" the explosive supernova collapse of dying stars over 65 million light years away. New research suggests that this current ...

Merging neutron stars are excellent targets for multi-messenger astronomy. This modern and still very young method of ...

At press conferences held across continents, scientists today announced the first detection of gravitational waves created by two neutron stars smashing into each other. First theorized by Albert ...

This discovery of two neutron stars colliding to create the same type of waves, in addition to light, allowed astronomers to study gravitational waves in a new way. The signal lasted for 100 ...

Caught in a fatal inward spiral, a neutron star met its end when a black hole swallowed it whole. Gravitational ripples from that collision spread outward through the cosmos, eventually reaching ...

Observing gravitational waves from neutron stars as they glitch could help us understand these exotic stellar remnants. Neutron stars are considered to be the most extreme and exotic celestial ...

The LIGO/VIRGO/KAGRA collaboration searches the universe for gravitational waves produced by the mergers of black holes and neutron stars. It has now announced the detection of a signal indicating ...

Binary neutron star mergers occur millions of light-years away from Earth. Interpreting the gravitational waves they produce ...

New research suggests that this current generation of gravitational wave detectors could "hear" the most energetic core-collapse supernovas at distances thousands of times greater than currently ...

suggests that accelerating objects create gravitational waves. That means that when black holes and neutron stars spiral around each other, they emit low-frequency gravitational waves, then ...