Neutron stars are very small and dense stars, where roughly half a million earth masses of material are squeezed into a city-sized volume with a radius of 10 km. They are mostly composed of ...

A group of scientists at the Goethe University Frankfurt recently published two articles about their work on determining the internal structure of neutron stars. The papers can be found in the ...

A thousand light years from Earth is an ancient remnant of a dead star. Known as the Velar pulsar, it's outer layers were blown away long ago, leaving a core crushed by its intense gravity. It has ...

Through extensive model calculations, physicistshave reached general conclusions about the internal structure of neutron stars, where matter reaches enormous densities: depending on their mass ...

If they weigh more than 1.7 times our Sun, they will be heavy neutron stars and have a stiff exterior and softer core (like Lindor chocolate truffles), while lighter ones have a soft mantle and ...

The violent merger of two neutron stars is thought to involve three main energy-transfer processes, shown in this diagram, that give rise to the different types of radiation seen by astronomers ...

Strohmayer and Watts examined a neutron star named SGR 1806-20, about 40,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The object is in a subclass of highly magnetic neutron stars ...

Sweet new research suggests that some neutron stars have stiff mantles and soft cores, while others have soft exteriors and stiff hearts, just like different types of chocolates.

Journal Reference: M. Ablikim et al. Oscillating features in the electromagnetic structure of the neutron. Nature Physics, 2021; 17 (11): 1200 DOI: 10.1038/s41567-021-01345-6 ...

Nucleon Structure and Strong Interactions in Dark Matter Capture in Neutron Stars Journal: Physical Review Letters Published: 2021-09-10 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.111803 Affiliations: 3 Authors: 6 ...