June 26 (UPI) --Scientists have developed new models to estimate the size of neutron stars. The models, powered by gravitational wave data, helped astrophysicists establish new more precise upper ...

A typical neutron star is no wider than a city, as this model shows. Image: (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) A typical neutron star measures 22 kilometers (13.6 miles) wide, according to new ...

Neutrons stars are unimaginably dense, and perhaps even the densest-known objects in the entire universe. They can be as small as a city and contain just as much matter as a star would. Image Credit: ...

When a very massive star dies, its core contracts. In a supernova explosion, the star’s outer layers are expelled, leaving behind an ultra-compact neutron star. For the first time, the LIGO and Virgo ...

Neutron stars are the stellar corpses left behind when a massive star goes supernova. They’re unimaginably dense. A tablespoonful of neutron star placed on Earth’s surface would weigh roughly as much ...

How large is a neutron star? Previous estimates varied from eight to sixteen kilometers. Astrophysicists have now succeeded in determining the size of neutron stars to within 1.5 kilometers by using ...

A recent measurement of a rapidly spinning neutron star has disproved what was regarded as a credible picture of the star’s center. The centers of neutron stars are stiff and not squishy. Neutron ...

Astrophysicists are combining multiple methods to reveal the secrets of some of the weirdest objects in the universe. Neutron stars are arguably the strangest objects in the cosmos. Born from the ...

Groundbreaking results show that neutron stars of different masses may have the same size — upending astrophysical models. In the known universe, there is nothing quite like a neutron star. Born from ...

These "mountains" may be hundreds of times smaller than previous predictions suggested. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Neutron ...

FRANKFURT. How large is a neutron star? Previous estimates varied from eight to sixteen kilometres. Astrophysicists at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the FIAS have now succeeded in determining ...