A distant neutron star unexpectedly reawakened, unleashing a powerful X-ray surge that may reveal how the universe’s most ...

Describing matter under extreme conditions, such as those found inside neutron stars, remains an unsolved problem. The ...

Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts. Neutron stars' surface gravities are so intense that the largest "mountains" are only a few ...

Astronomers tracked a decade of dramatic changes in P13, a neutron star undergoing supercritical accretion. Its X-ray ...

A research team has investigated long-term X-ray variability in the neutron star NGC 7793 P13, an object thought to be driven ...