We evolved the system up to a record-breaking 1.5 seconds of real time by using the Japanese supercomputer Fugaku." The researchers observed that following its merger, the binary neutron star system ...

Publisher from verso of t.p. Series from preface. I. Historical sketch: the early period -- II. Historical sketch: the modern period -- III. Observing methods, visual binary stars -- IV. The orbit of ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our ...

University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high-mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a ...

A team of astronomers from The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and other universities have captured the first direct image of a young binary ...

The simulation run by Hayashi and his colleagues sheds new light on the complex physics of binary neutron star mergers, showing that when these mergers are followed by the formation of black holes, ...