Professor James Binney, from the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics, joins the likes of Arthur Eddington, Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble, Stephen Hawking, and Jocelyn Bell Burnell in having .

Prior to the discovery of FRBs, the most powerful bursts observed in the Milky Way were produced by neutron stars, which are visible from up to 100,000 light-years away. However, according to new ...

They are believed to originate from cataclysmic processes involving compact celestial objects such as neutron stars, and they typically last a few milliseconds. However, astronomers have recently ...

One of the fast radio bursts appears to have come from the chaotic, magnetically active environment near a type of dense neutron star called a magnetar. Meanwhile, the other fast radio burst ...

This powerful dead star rotates once every 6.45 hours (nearly 24,000 seconds) in a category where other pulsars can take just 10 or 100 seconds to spin all the way around. Neutron stars ...

"In these environments of neutron stars, the magnetic fields are really at the limits of what the universe can produce." Fireworks are likely dying down in your neighborhood as New Year's ...

Some theories suggest they originate from powerful shockwaves, while others point to the highly magnetic environments surrounding neutron stars. Astronomers at MIT have now managed to pinpoint the ...

By obtaining enough data from lots of individual bursts, researchers gradually put the focus on magnetars, versions of neutron stars that have intense magnetic fields. But we still don't know ...

Researchers have estimated that FRB 20221022A exploded from a region that is at most 10,000 kilometers (6,000 miles) away from a neutron star. A neutron star in a galaxy 200 million light-years away.

The team estimates that FRB 20221022A exploded from a region that is extremely close to a rotating neutron star, 10,000 kilometers away at most. That's less than the distance between New York and ...

Gravity from mountains on rapidly rotating neutron stars produces ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) searches for ...