Neutron stars

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan.

New observations of microscopic vortices confirm the existence of a paradoxical phase of matter that may also arise inside neutron stars.

Astronomers thought they had solved the mystery of gamma-ray bursts. A few recent events suggest otherwise.

After a search of neutron stars finds preliminary evidence for hypothetical dark matter particles called axions, astrophysicists are devising new ways to spot them.

These ultrabright flashes have recently been tracked for days, upending ideas about the cataclysms that create them.

Groundbreaking results show that neutron stars of different masses may have the same size — upending astrophysical models.

Small black holes were nowhere to be found, leading astronomers to wonder if they didn’t exist at all. Now a series of findings, including a “unicorn” black hole, has raised hopes of solving the decade-long mystery.

Three-dimensional supernova simulations have solved the mystery of why they explode at all.

After a burst lit up their telescope “like a Christmas tree,” astronomers were able to finally track down the source of these cosmic oddities.