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“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 ...

Most likely by devouring a companion star—the celestial equivalent of a black widow spider devouring its mate. The work helps establish an upper limit on just how large neutron stars can become ...

The successful gravitational-wave detections just keep coming for the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, which has now confirmed two separate "mixed" mergers between black holes and neutron stars ...

Here’s how it works. Astronomers have yet to witness a collision between a black hole and a neutron star, but they predict that such a smashup would unleash huge amounts of energy but ...

Almost one billion years ago, a black hole sent a neutron star into a death spiral. And then, some 200 million years later, another black hole claimed yet another victim neutron star with a death ...

Artist's impression of a neutron star falling into a black hole Scientists have detected two collisions between a neutron star and a black hole in the space of 10 days. Researchers predicted that ...

Since then, a total of 90 signals have been observed: from binary systems of two black holes or neutron stars, and also from mixed binaries. If at least one neutron star is involved in the merger ...

If possible, this could help scientists determine if the massive dying star that launches the detected supernova leaves a black hole or a neutron star in its wake. Why do scientists expect ...

The heavier a neutron star is, the more likely it is to eventually collapse to become something even denser: a black hole. These astrophysical objects are so dense, and their gravitational pulls ...