Neutron stars are some of the strangest things in the universe, but are they the source of the mysterious Fast Radio Bursts? Or is it aliens? Spoilers: probably not aliens.

We’ve covered a lot of incredible stuff, but this week we’re talking about the weirdest objects in space: BLACK HOLES. Stellar mass black holes form when a very massive star dies, and its core collapses. The core has to be more than...

Scientists have observed a collision of two of the universe's most extreme objects. And a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa makes an important step forward.

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The universe is full of opposing forces balanced in a celestial tug-of-war, until they sometimes aren’t. In stars, the two opposing forces are gravity which tries to collapse the star inward, and...

How the Very Large Telescope works and how its discoveries about Sagittarius A* lead to a Nobel Physics Prize

The properties of black holes that make them so bizarre.

Astrum investigates some examples of the longest and shortest years that we know of. The differences are mind-boggling!

Neutron stars are formed from the core of some starrs. Neutron stars generally have a radius of only around 12 km. With masses exceeding 1.4 times that of the Sun, these are some of the densest objects in the Universe. A tablespoonful of...

A black hole is a celestial body or simply a place in space where the gravitational pull is so high that nothing, not even light can escape it. This is why it's completely black, and hence it's called a black hole. A black hole's...

An extremely dense star formed when a giant star called a supernova explodes. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and concise textual definitions. Twig Science Glossary...

This video covers:

- How stars form, live an
d die
- How they transition between a nebula, protostar, main seq
uence star
- And then either red giant, white dwarf
and black dwarf
- Or red super giant, supernova,...

Learn about M51 ULS 1b -- the first extragalactic planet candidate in the M51 Whirlpool Galaxy -- with this space science & planet song by KLT.

The death of massive super giant stars creates neutron stars, let's learn how that happens!

Our solar system has just one star in it, the sun. But this is actually not the most common situation for systems. Most systems are multi-star systems, with binary systems being extremely common. These are systems where two stars orbit...

What happens when black holes collide? What is the speed of gravity? There are so many weird questions related to gravitational waves.

On Feb 11, 2016 Scientists at LIGO announced that they had detected gravitational waves for the first time. In the press conference heard round the world, they showed the tell-tale waveforms indicating that huge event in which two black...

Why heavy objects theoretically falls a bit faster. By using newton i'm looking at what happens when a 1 kg object is dropped. then what happens with bigger objects. It turns out, that the earth is not stationary, and will accelereate...

In this video I cover research examples going on in terms of space exploration. Main topics covered include dark energy, dark matter, black holes, pulsars, neutron st

ars, and more.

Also note there is a...

NASA’s Fermi telescope discovered a vast halo around a neutron star that could explain why there is so much antimatter near Earth. <br/>

The first fast radio burst to be discovered in the Milky Way has been traced back to a magnetar known as SGR 1935+2154 located 32,616 light-years away from Earth, astronomers researching the phenomena told Nature magazine.

Researchers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have discovered the first gamma-ray pulsar in a galaxy other than our own. The object sets a new record for the most luminous gamma-ray pulsar known.



The pulsar...

American astronomers have revealed that gold is likely the byproduct of the cataclysmic merger of neutron stars, according to the USA today.

Have you ever wondered if planets are still being formed? Dr. Debra Fischer answers your question in this special “Mysteries of the Cosmos” edition of Ask a Scientist.

Scientists studying what amounts to a computer-simulated "pulsar in a box" are gaining a more detailed understanding of the complex, high-energy environment around spinning neutron stars, also called pulsars....