Astronomers have discovered a "teenage vampire" dead star in the process of devouring a companion star during a short-lived, "missing link" phase of its evolution.

Neutron stars are among the most powerful and mysterious objects in the universe. Born from the explosive deaths of massive stars in supernovae, these dense stellar remnants pack more mass than our ...

The stars in a binary can vary widely in mass, size, and brightness, and their interactions often shape their evolution in dramatic ways. In some cases, the gravity from one star can drag material ...

known as millisecond pulsars, can have frequencies above 700 Hz. It's pretty astonishing when you think about it. An object with nearly twice the mass of the sun, but only a few kilometers across ...

The observed delays, caused by the gravity of these invisible masses, have specific shapes and sizes related to their mass. By studying around sixty millisecond pulsars, about a dozen events indicate ...

"There were 12 candidates and they come from eight independent pulsars," he told IFLScience ... caused by the change in distance between the mass we are observing and the line of sight to our ...

Pulsars earned their nickname because they send ... indicating that the radio beams are travelling around an unseen concentration of mass somewhere between the pulsar and the telescope.

The displacement along Y is taken as V t. The mass concentration is in the plane at (D,Vt). Pulsars were discovered by Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell in 1967. Burnell was a postgraduate ...

Pulsars are formed from the remnants of massive stars that have ended their life cycles in supernova explosions. When a star with a mass between about 10 and 25 times that of the sun exhausts its ...

The pulsars themselves are really rapidly spinning neutron stars. Neutron stars are ultra-dense balls of atomic matter, usually no bigger than a few miles across, with a mass a few times that of ...

This one was in a binary system with a low-mass white dwarf companion as would be expected if the progenitors of millisecond pulsars were LMXBs. In a subsequent paper by researchers at RRI (D.