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New large-sized telescope array in Spain ushers in a new era in exploring the extreme universe
Four 23-meter telescopes on La Palma mark the completion o…
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https://www.europesays.com/spain/101695/
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1257591/ New large-sized telescope array in Spain ushers in a new era in exploring the extreme universe #Astronomy #Astrophysics #BlackHoles #CherenkovLight #CosmicRays #Cosmology #CTAO #DarkMatter #EU #Europe #GammaRayAstronomy #GammaRayBursts #InnovationNews #LaPalma #LargeSizedTelescopes #LST1 #NeutronStars #Observatories #OP313 #Research #RoqueDeLosMuchachos #Science #SpaceNews #Spain
The universe's most extreme dead stars can form from vampire white dwarfs — and scientists finally know how
There's a brief update by @LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA on the start of their next observing run.
The first intermediate run (IR1) is expected to begin early- to mid-November of 2026. It's duration is scheduled to be six months. The LIGO instruments will be slightly more sensitive than in the previous observing run O4. Virgo will join but with possible interruptions for maintenance and upgrade, and KAGRA will join later in the run as available.
You will find more information on our homepage: https://www.aei.mpg.de/gwastronomy
#GravitationalWave #astronomy #BlackHole #neutronstars #astrophysics #IR1
https://www.europesays.com/ie/660849/ In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell found pulsars but watched her supervisor receive the Nobel: The discovery that still raises questions about scientific credit | #astrophysics #BellBurnell #CambridgeUniversity #Éire #FemaleScientists #HistoryOfAstronomy #IE #Ireland #JocelynBellBurnell #NeutronStars #NobelPrize #Pulsars #Science #Space
https://www.europesays.com/ie/648509/ Extreme X-rays from a magnetar exposes that empty space may not be empty #1E15470−5408 #Astronomy #cosmology #Éire #IE #Ireland #IXPE #Magnetar #MagneticFields #Murriyang #NeutronStars #NewDiscoveries #NICER #ParkesRadioTelescope #Physics #QED #QuantumElectrodynamics #QuantumVacuum #Research #Science #SpaceNews #SwinburneUniversityOfTechnology #VacuumBirefringence #XRayAstronomy #XRayPolarization
New in the #VirtualObservatory: “Catalog of outbursts of neutron star LMXBs” by Heinke C.O. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/279/57
#NeutronStars #AstronomicalReferenceMaterials #StellarDistance #XRayBinaryStars
NASA’s IXPE May Have Proven 90-Year-Old Theory
A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Space #IXPE(ImagingX-rayPolarimetryExplorer) #magnetars #MarshallAstrophysics #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #neutronstars #Science #TheUniverse
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/804290/
NASA’s IXPE May Have Proven 90-Year-Old Theory
A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #IXPE(ImagingX-rayPolarimetryExplorer) #Magnetars #MarshallAstrophysics #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #NeutronStars #Science #TheUniverse #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/728948/
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1133058/ NASA’s IXPE May Have Proven 90-Year-Old Theory #IXPE(ImagingXRayPolarimetryExplorer) #Magnetars #MarshallAstrophysics #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #NeutronStars #Science #Space #TheUniverse #UK #UnitedKingdom
NASA’s IXPE May Have Proven 90-Year-Old Theory
A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #CA #Canada #IXPE(ImagingX-rayPolarimetryExplorer) #Magnetars #MarshallAstrophysics #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #NeutronStars #Science #TheUniverse
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/847625/
NASA’s IXPE May Have Proven 90-Year-Old Theory
A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #AU #Australia #IXPE(ImagingX-rayPolarimetryExplorer) #Magnetars #MarshallAstrophysics #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #NeutronStars #Science #TheUniverse
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/844859/
https://www.europesays.com/ie/622444/ NASA’s IXPE May Have Proven 90-Year-Old Theory #Éire #IE #Ireland #IXPE(ImagingXRayPolarimetryExplorer) #Magnetars #MarshallAstrophysics #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #NeutronStars #Science #Space #TheUniverse
New Selected Research Highlight:
📣 A new way to study neutron stars using simulations and universal patterns
Simulation-based inference helps to deal with the uncertainty about neutron star matter.
New in the #VirtualObservatory: “Study of Gaia binaries with compact companions” by Shahaf S. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/518/2991
#Orbits #StellarMasses #NeutronStars #WhiteDwarfStars
Dresden researchers discover a rare trace from space
Dresden researchers discover a rare trace from space
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#Dresden #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Astrophysics #Cosmos #DeepSea #ElementFormation #Germany #HZDR #NeutronStars #Plutonium-244 #Radionuclides #Sachsen #Supernova #Universe
https://www.europesays.com/de/1095983/
https://www.europesays.com/de/1095983/ Dresden researchers discover a rare trace from space #Astrophysics #Cosmos #DE #DeepSea #Deutschland #Dresden #ElementFormation #Germany #HZDR #NeutronStars #Plutonium244 #Radionuclides #Sachsen #Supernova #Universe
https://www.europesays.com/ie/519109/ Scientists Discover an Astronomical ‘Rosetta Stone’ for Decoding Mysterious Cosmic Signals #Éire #IE #Ireland #LongPeriodRadioTransients #MysteriousCosmicSignals #NeutronStars #Pulsars #RadioWaves #RedDwarfStars #Science #Space #UniversityOfSydney #WhiteDwarfStars #XRays
Scientists find a place where time moves backward
Physicists in South Africa ran the math on collapsing neutron stars and landed somewhere odd. Researchers from Durban…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #DurbanUniversityofTechnology #NeutronStars #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/604484/
https://www.europesays.com/ie/502542/ Scientists find a place where time moves backward #DurbanUniversityOfTechnology #Éire #IE #Ireland #NeutronStars #Science #Space
Scientists find a place where time moves backward
Physicists in South Africa ran the math on collapsing neutron stars and landed somewhere odd. Researchers from Durban…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #DurbanUniversityofTechnology #neutronstars
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/664591/
https://www.europesays.com/ie/501008/ NASA’s Fermi Glimpses Power Source of Supercharged Supernovae #Éire #FermiGammaRaySpaceTelescope #GammaRays #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #IE #Ireland #Magnetars #NeutronStars #Science #Space #stars #Supernovae #TheUniverse
New in the #VirtualObservatory: “X-ray burst pulse obs. from GBM, GECAM & HXMT” by Yang J.-J. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/279/14
#GammaRayAstronomy #NeutronStars #XRaySources
https://www.europesays.com/ie/485808/ In 1967, a Cambridge student spotted a ‘scruffy’ printout blip that revealed the universe’s mysterious ticking stars #Astronomy #CambridgeUniversity #CosmicClocks #Éire #GravitationalWaves #IE #Ireland #JocelynBellBurnell #NeutronStars #Pulsars #Science #SpaceExploration
NASA’s Roman Poised to Transform Hunt for Elusive Neutron Stars
Astronomers have long known that neutron stars, the crushed cores left behind after massive stars explode, should be…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #GB #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #NancyGraceRomanSpaceTelescope #NeutronStars #stars #TheUniverse #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/570780/
https://www.europesays.com/ie/471573/ NASA’s Roman Poised to Transform Hunt for Elusive Neutron Stars #Éire #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #IE #Ireland #NancyGraceRomanSpaceTelescope #NeutronStars #Science #Space #stars #TheUniverse
NASA’s Roman Poised to Transform Hunt for Elusive Neutron Stars
Astronomers have long known that neutron stars, the crushed cores left behind after massive stars explode, should be…
#Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #Rome #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #NancyGraceRomanSpaceTelescope #NeutronStars #Stars #TheUniverse
https://www.europesays.com/italy/13360/
New in the #VirtualObservatory: “MeerKAT radio emission search from magnetars” by Bause M.L. et al.
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/708/A321
#RadioSources #NeutronStars
Evidence Suggests a Possible Superkilonova Hidden Within a Supernova
📰 Original title: Astronomers may have found a strange new kind of cosmic explosion
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅
View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/evidence-suggests-a-possible-superkilonova-hidden-within-a-supernova/?redirpost=283df76d-d340-4724-a8dd-f641037071eb
Evidence Suggests a Possible Superkilonova Hidden Within a Supernova
📰 Original title: Astronomers may have found a strange new kind of cosmic explosion
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅
View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/evidence-suggests-a-possible-superkilonova-hidden-within-a-supernova/?redirpost=283df76d-d340-4724-a8dd-f641037071eb
https://www.europesays.com/uk/909735/ Mississippi State physicist creates neutron star reaction in the lab #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Copper59 #Cosmology #ElementFormation #HeavyElements #MississippiStateUniversity #NeutronStars #NickelCopperCycle #NuclearPhysics #Physics #Research #Science #SpaceNews #StellarExplosions #UK #UnitedKingdom #XRayBursts
Mississippi State physicist creates neutron star reaction in the lab
For years, physicists have wondered whether one unstable form of copper might act like a traffic jam…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Physics #Astronomy #Astrophysics #copper-59 #Cosmology #elementformation #heavyelements #mississippi-state-university #neutronstars #nickel-coppercycle #Nuclearphysics #Research #Science #SpaceNews #stellarexplosions #X-raybursts
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/597848/
https://www.europesays.com/ie/446654/ Mississippi State physicist creates neutron star reaction in the lab #Astronomy #astrophysics #Copper59 #cosmology #Éire #ElementFormation #HeavyElements #IE #Ireland #MississippiStateUniversity #NeutronStars #NickelCopperCycle #NuclearPhysics #Physics #Research #Science #SpaceNews #StellarExplosions #XRayBursts
#BlackHoles and #NeutronStars: 218 Mergers and Counting
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day
NASA’s Hubble Revisits Crab Nebula to Track 25 Years of Expansion https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-revisits-crab-nebula-to-track-25-years-of-expansion/ #NASA #Astrophysics #AstrophysicsDivision #CrabNebula #EmissionNebulae #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #HubbleSpaceTelescope #Nebulae #NeutronStars #Pulsars #SupernovaRemnants
Study Reveals How Neutron Star Mergers Spread Precious Metals Across the Universe
📰 Original title: Astrophysicists trace the origin of valuable metals in space, from colliding stars to merging galaxies
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅
View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/study-reveals-how-neutron-star-mergers-spread-precious-metals-across-the-universe/?redirpost=70bd3849-a85d-430e-bd44-c5113372f5d4
NASA Discovers Crash of Extreme Stars in Unexpected Site
A fleet of NASA missions has likely uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #Astrophysics #AU #Australia #ChandraX-RayObservatory #FermiGamma-RaySpaceTelescope #gamma-raybursts #HubbleSpaceTelescope #MarshallAstrophysics #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #NeilGehrelsSwiftObservatory #NeutronStars #Science #TheUniverse
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/531984/
NASA Discovers Crash of Extreme Stars in Unexpected Site https://www.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/nasa-discovers-crash-of-extreme-stars-in-unexpected-site/ #NASA #ChandraXRayObservatory #Astrophysics #FermiGammaRaySpaceTelescope #GammaRayBursts #HubbleSpaceTelescope #MarshallAstrophysics #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #NeilGehrelsSwiftObservatory #NeutronStars #TheUniverse
What's inside neutron stars? New model could sharpen gravitational-wave 'tide' clues
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-neutron-stars-sharpen-gravitational-tide.html
Fascinating LUTh seminar! Debarati Chatterjee shows how gravitational waves let us peer inside neutron stars to study ultra-dense matter — connecting nuclear theory, heavy-ion experiments and astrophysics. A must-watch for anyone curious about extreme physics! #GravitationalWaves #NeutronStars #DenseMatter #Astrophysics #NuclearPhysics #MultiMessenger #Science #English
https://astrotube.obspm.fr/videos/watch/88ae041e-40f5-42f5-9a5d-a7265bb0baa4
Neutron stars form when massive stars exhaust nuclear fuel and collapse. Gravity compresses electrons and protons into neutrons, producing matter so dense one teaspoon would weigh over a billion tons on Earth.
🖥️ The researchers used the distributed volunteer computing project @einsteinathome and the @maxplanckgesellschaft's computing clusters Atlas, Raven, and Viper to analyze public data from the @LIGO detectors’ third observing run (O3).
🔍 They found all hardware injections — signals added artificially to the data by moving the LIGO mirrors — within the search range, and were the first ever to successfully detect the hardware injection no. 11.
🚀 While no astrophysical signals were observed, the team expects their O3 results to be competitive with LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA analyses based on yet unpublished data from the latest, fourth observing run (O4) data.
🤝 Do you already support our distributed volunteer computing project Einstein@Home? It's super easy to join, just follow the four steps at https://einsteinathome.org/join and start donating idle computing time on your PC to science.
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✨ New selected research highlight ✨
Einstein@Home conducts most sensitive search for elusive continuous gravitational waves.
✨ Astronomers expect the Galactic population of neutron stars – compact remnants of supernova explosions – to be a promising source of continuous gravitational waves, which have yet to be detected.
🔭 Since the sky positions, spin frequencies, and frequency derivatives of individual neutron stars are unknown, wide-band, all-sky searches are one of the main tools used in the field. Researchers from the independent @maxplanckgesellschaft research group “Continuous Gravitational Waves” at the @mpi_grav have recently published the deepest all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves to date.
ℹ️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1403593/einstein-home-s-most-sensitive-continuous-gravitational-wave-search
📄 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae225a (Open Access)
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A double cosmic explosion could be the first known ‘#superkilonova’
The blast may have come from a collision of tiny #neutronstars forged in a #supernova
#Astronomers have spotted a distant #star that seems to have exploded twice. U.S.-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or #LIGO, and the Virgo detector in Italy detected ripples in spacetime coming from a pair of neutron stars merging about 1.8 billion light-years away.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/double-explosion-by-star-superkilonova
https://archive.ph/fZfZp
Magnetosphere Evolution and Precursor-driven Electromagnetic Signals in Merging Binary Neutron Stars: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adfbee -> NASA Researchers Probe Tangled Magnetospheres of Merging #NeutronStars: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/nasa-researchers-probe-tangled-magnetospheres-of-merging-neutron-stars/
NASA Researchers Probe Tangled Magnetospheres of Merging Neutron Stars https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/nasa-researchers-probe-tangled-magnetospheres-of-merging-neutron-stars/ #NASA #AmesResearchCenter #Astrophysics #GammaRayBursts #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #GravitationalWaves #HighTechComputing #LaserInterferometerGravitationalWaveObservatoryLIGO #NeutronStars #OriginEvolutionOfTheUniverse #ScienceResearch #SensingTheUniverseMultimessengerAstronomy
NASA’s Webb Observes Exoplanet Whose Composition Defies Explanation https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-observes-exoplanet-whose-composition-defies-explanation/ #NASA #Astrophysics #ExoplanetAtmosphere #Exoplanets #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #JamesWebbSpaceTelescopeJWST #NeutronStars #PlanetaryEnvironmentsAtmospheres #Pulsars #ScienceResearch
NASA’s Webb Observes Exoplanet Whose Composition Defies Explanation https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-observes-exoplanet-whose-composition-defies-explanation/ #NASA #ExoplanetAtmosphere #Exoplanets #JamesWebbSpaceTelescopeJWST #NeutronStars #PlanetaryEnvironmentsAtmospheres #Pulsars
Is the universe ending sooner than we thought? New physics suggests a much shorter lifespan |
New physics reveals detailed calculations showing the universe’s end may come far sooner than expected, with an exact…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Physics #Blackholes #Cosmology #hawkingradiation #neutronstars #Science #universelifespan
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/344118/
"Boyanov and colleagues tackle the following questions: Under what conditions do viscous compact objects such as neutron stars reflect or absorb gravitational waves? And to what extent do these interactions mimic those of black holes?"
🎉 A new paper with Einstein@Home gamma-ray pulsar discoveries 🔭
The new publication “Einstein@Home Searches for Gamma-ray Pulsars in the Inner Galaxy” was accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal and is posted on the arXiv preprint server today.
📄 https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21307
The international science team reports the discovery of four previously unknown gamma-ray pulsars towards the direction of the Galactic Center. Most likely the four discoveries are foreground sources from the Galactic disk.
🙏 We thank our volunteers, without the support of whom this research could not have happened.
All of our publications and PhD theses related to the project at https://einsteinathome.org/science/publications.
This is a fantastic presentation on #NeutronStars - #AnnaWatts is so awesome as she presents on #NeutronDegeneracyPressure and ferocious magnetism along with the evolution of modelling is super nifty.
Stick around for the Q&A ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I12SQ7YOebY
✨ New header picture 🖼️
The image is a still from a numerical simulation. It shows the situationa approximately 1.3 seconds after the merger of two neutron stars. The blue and green contours show the density of matter around the central remaining black hole. The magenta lines show the magnetic field lines and the arrows show the outflow from the magnetosphere (also known as a “jet”).
The simulation set a new record: an international team led by researchers from @mpi_grav has performed the longest and most complex simulation to date of a binary neutron star merger, lasting 1.5 seconds of real time. This required around 130 million CPU hours.
ℹ️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1249127/breakthrough-in-simulating-how-neutron-stars-collide
Image: K. Hayashi / @mpi_grav
There were already two new gravitational-wave candidates today – so far.
S250830m, if real, most likely came from a merger of two black holes 12 billion light-years away.
ℹ️ https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S250830m/view/
S250830bp, if real, came either from a merger of two black holes (84% probability) or from a merger of a black hole with a neutron star (16% probability). The distance is “only” 1.4 billion light-years. The sky position could be determined quite accurately (to within 10.5 square degrees).
ℹ️ https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S250830bp/view/
#GravitationalWaves #O4c #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Science #BlackHoles #NeutronStars
Two new papers from our team with the latest Einstein@Home science results 🎉
Our team has just published two new papers on the arXiv preprint servers, reporting on the latest results from analyzing public @LIGO data from the third observing run (O3).
📄 “Einstein@Home all-sky "bucket" search for continuous gravitational waves in LIGO O3 public data” (https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16423)
📄 “High-frequency continuous gravitational waves searched in LIGO O3 public data with Einstein@Home” (https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20073)
🙏 We thank our volunteers, without the support of whom this research could not have happened.
All of our publications and PhD theses related to the project ➡️ https://einsteinathome.org/de/science/publications
#GravitationalWaves #NeutronStars #CitizenScience #DistributedComputing #Astronomy #Astrophysics
You'll find a set of five papers with all details on the arXiv preprint server today:
1️⃣ GWTC-4.0: An Introduction to Version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18080)
2️⃣ GWTC-4.0: Methods for Identifying and Characterizing Gravitational-wave Transients (https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18081)
3️⃣ GWTC-4.0: Updating the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog with Observations from the First Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run (https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082)
4️⃣ GWTC-4.0: Population Properties of Merging Compact Binaries (https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18083)
5️⃣ Open Data from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA through the First Part of the Fourth Observing Run (https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18079)
#GWTC4 #GravitationalWaves #Astrophysics #Science #BlackHoles #NeutronStars