Neutron star

The very central region of the star the core collapses, crushing together every proton and electron into a neutron

Massive neutron star, illustration. This super-dense astronomical object is the remains of a massive star that has collapsed under its own gravity.

A new type of star may eventually collapse and become a magnetar – a highly magnetic neutron star, whose origins have been a cosmic mystery for decades

Neutron stars are one of the most bizarre and unique objects in the Universe. However, not much is known about these remnants of dead stars.

RIKEN researchers have developed an improved model for the equation of state of neutron stars that can consider finite temperatures

UPDATE: (Science Alert) – New satellite data from the European Space Agency (ESA) reveal that the mysterious anomaly weakening Earth’s magnetic field continues to evolve, with the most recent observations showing we could soon be dealing with more than one of these strange phenomena. The South Atlantic Anomaly is a vast expanse of reduced magnetic […]

Most massive neutron star ever detected, almost too massive to exist !! • Astronomers have discovered the most massive neutron star to…

A team of astronomers, including Danai Antonopoulou and Anna Watts from the University of Amsterdam, has discovered that sudden speed jumps in the rotational velocity of pulsars have a minimum size, and that they are caused not by the unpinning and displacement of just one sub-surface superfluid vortex, but by billions. This result is important to our understanding of the behavior of matter under extreme conditions, and has been published this week in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal…

Researchers from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research have made observations of a new magnetar, called Swift J1818.0-1607, which challenges current knowledge about two types of extreme stars, known as magnetars and pulsars. The research, just published in the Astrophysical Journal, was done using the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), an X-ray instrument aboard the International Space Station.