Some of the universe’s heaviest elements are born in chaos, in matter flung outward when neutron stars collide or massive ...

Machine learning models energy release during heavy-element formation, enabling faster simulations of neutron star mergers ...

Using a novel simulation model based on machine learning, an international research team at GSI/FAIR has succeeded in gaining ...

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Being too close to two neutron stars colliding spectacularly may be ...

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In the second-brightest supernova ever seen, two neutron stars have ...

You’ve probably heard of a supernova, when a star reaches the end of its life and explodes in a huge burst of energy. But these aren’t the only dramatic explosions out in space — there are also ...

Kilonova? More like killer-nova. Violent star collisions, called a kilonova, could devastate our planet due to a lethal spew of radiation — namely gamma rays, cosmic rays and x-rays — that are emitted ...

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A year ago, astronomers discovered a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) lasting nearly two minutes, dubbed GRB 211211A. Now, that unusual event is upending the long-standing assumption that longer GRBs ...