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

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

A long-duration simulation of a binary neutron star merger, using a neutrino-radiation magnetohydrodynamics framework, demonstrates that such mergers can promptly collapse into a black hole and ...

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.

S cientists have developed the longest and most complex simulation to date of a binary neutron star collision that results in ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions seen since the Big Bang.