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Astronomers just made what may be one of the rarest finds in our Milky Way Galaxy — a pair of stars that will one day crash into one another and explode in a gold-producing kilonova. When a massive ...

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The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) famously detects gravitational waves by looking at the collisions of black holes. It also looks at collisions of other cosmic bodies, ...

When a giant star reaches the end of its life, it explodes and emits an enormous amount of light. That is a supernova. For weeks to months, it shines as bright as an entire galaxy. A kilonova is also ...

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In a strange turn of events, a supernova birthed twin baby neutron stars that merged to make a powerful kilonova. Reading time 3 minutes When massive stars die, they go out in fiery explosions called ...

When neutron stars collide, they produce an explosion that, contrary to what was believed until recently, is shaped almost like a perfect sphere. Although how this is possible is still a mystery, the ...

Neutron stars are the end products of massive stars and gather together a large part of the original stellar mass in a super-dense star with a diameter of only around ten kilometers. On 17 August 2017 ...

The most luminous kilonova candidate to date (short gamma-ray burst 200522A) was detected using the Hubble Space Telescope, Swift Observatory and other telescopes. A kilonova is a "the afterglow ...