Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

“When the neutron star plunges into the black hole, the monster shock waves are launched,” says Yoonsoo Kim, lead author of the second study. “After the star is sucked in, whipping winds are ...

A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen object called a black hole pulsar.

An artist's concept of a black hole orbited by a neutron star. Image: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) When a black hole and a neutron star finally meet, the result is cosmic carnage—and now, thanks to ...

While black hole pulsars had been previously conjectured, the simulation is the first to show how such a rare object could actually form in nature from the collision of a neutron star and a black ...

Scientists think they have observed a black hole swallowing a neutron star for the first time after detecting gravitational waves—ripples in space-time—from a location around 900 light years ...

“About 900 million years ago, this black hole ate a very dense star, known as a neutron star, like Pac-man – possibly snuffing out the star instantly,” said Susan Scott, leader of the ...

The neutron star was about 1.5 times the mass of the sun, and the black hole was about six times the mass of the sun. Unlike the 2017 collision of two neutron stars, telescopes were unable to spot ...

Fuller and his colleagues suggested the existence of black holes with a mass of between a small asteroid and a large dwarf planet (10-14 to 10-8 solar masses), and they would be one of the ...

The current generation of gravitational wave detectors could "hear" supernovas over 65 million light-years away, helping scientists determine if a dying star creates a black hole or a neutron star.

Astronomers have spied the heaviest neutron star to date 3,000 light-years away from Earth. The “black widow,” a dense, collapsed star that’s devouring its stellar companion, also spins 707 ...