Imagine eating as much as you can handle, getting heavier and heavier — all while getting slimmer and slimmer. Sounds like a dream, especially after the festive period, right? Well, maybe not for ...

New research in our Milky Way has revealed a neutron star that rotates around its axis at an extremely high speed. It spins 716 times per second, making it one of the fastest-spinning objects ever ...

Neutron stars, the remnants of massive stars after a supernova, are among the densest and most fascinating objects in the universe. Recent discoveries have indicated that some neutron stars are ...

"We are dealing with very extreme events." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have discovered a "dead star" neutron star ...

A dead star 27,400 light-years away appears to be having one of the most epic stellar discos we've ever seen. This discovery, says a team led by astrophysicist Gaurava Jaisawal of the Technical ...

MADISON — Keying off new observations, astronomers are turning to an old idea of what puts the brakes on young, rapidly rotating stars, some of which spin so fast that astronomers are amazed they ...

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Flux–temperature diagram from time-resolved spectroscopy of all 15 X-ray bursts of 4U 1820–30. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal (2024). DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad794e A new study by DTU Space ...