Rare earth element synthesis confirmed in neutron star mergers
A group of researchers has, for the first time, identified rare earth elements produced by neutron star mergers.
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Oct 27, 2022
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News tagged with merger
ALMA witnesses deadly star-slinging tug-of-war between merging galaxies
While observing a newly-dormant galaxy using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), scientists discovered that it had stopped forming stars not because it had used up ...
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Aug 30, 2022
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Modeling the merger of a black hole with a neutron star and the subsequent process in a single simulation
Using supercomputer calculations, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam and from Japan show a consistent picture for the first time: They modeled the complete process of the collision ...
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Jul 14, 2022
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Researchers detect critical clue about the life cycles of binary stars
We now have new clues about a mysterious stage in the life of binary stars, thanks to research from The Australian National University (ANU) and Yunnan Observatory in China.
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Jul 7, 2022
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The case is building that colliding neutron stars create magnetars
Magnetars are some of the most fascinating astronomical objects. One teaspoon of the stuff they are made out of would weigh almost one billion tons, and they have magnetic fields that are hundreds of millions of times more ...
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Jul 1, 2022
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Exploring formation of ultra-massive carbon-oxygen white dwarfs
White dwarf stars (WDs) are the most numerous members of the stellar graveyard. It is widely accepted that more than 97% of the stars in the universe will evolve into WDs. These numerous objects are considered a powerful ...
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Jun 17, 2022
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The quiet life of Messier 94
Just like a murder of crows, a shrewdness of apes and a murmuration of starlings, tightly packed stars of a similar age within the center of a galaxy have a collective name: a bulge.
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Jun 17, 2022
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Astronomers discover how galaxies form through mergers
Astronomers in the UK announce today that have established how galaxies like our own Milky Way formed over 10 billion years of cosmic time through an abundance of separate galaxies colliding together.
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Jun 15, 2022
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Astronomers detect kilonova associated with a nearby gamma-ray burst
An international team of astronomers has detected a new kilonova associated with a nearby gamma-ray burst (GRB) known as GRB 211211A. The finding, reported in a paper published April 22 on arXiv.org, could improve our understanding ...
Black hole billiards in the centers of galaxies may explain black hole mergers
Researchers have provided the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to merge on a non-circular orbit. Their suggested solution, now ...
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Mar 9, 2022
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