A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used Frontier to chart the isospin density of a neutron star over a range of conditions. This illustration depicts isospin-dense ...

A neutrino moves through a gas of neutrons and is sensitive to correlations in spin and density in the neutron matter. These correlations determine how much energy transfers from the neutrino to the ...

Physicists have measured the microscopically thin skin of neutrons enclosing the insides of atoms of lead for the first time, finding that it's thicker than expected. The discovery could help to ...

The density of a neutron star is key to its use as a dark matter detector. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, ...

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Physicists at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, have used supercomputer simulations to predict a specific ...

Physicists at Radboud University have outlined a theoretical model suggesting that compact stars and their remnants could, in principle, slowly lose mass through a Hawking-like radiation process even ...

A team of astrophysicists recently used new models of neutron stars to map the mountains—tiny raised areas—on the stars’ otherwise perfectly spherical structures. They found that the greatest ...