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Cold neutron stars narrow the search for undiscovered fifth force in nature
The logic behind the researchers’ approach was straightforward. If scalar particles interact strongly with nucleons, neutron ...
Neutron stars are ultra-dense star remnants made up primarily of nucleons (i.e., protons and neutrons). Over the course of ...
A spoonful of this star's matter can weigh a billion tons. By developing a new theoretical relation describing just how compact neutron stars — which are the remnants of massive stars that have gone ...
Artist’s impression of the powerful winds blowing from the bright X-ray source GX13+1. The X-rays are coming from a disc of hot matter, known as an accretion disc, that is gradually spiralling down to ...
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Why scientists are rethinking how gold was made: Magnetars may be the universe’s first cosmic goldsmiths
For decades, scientists believed that gold and other heavy elements were born from the cataclysmic collision of neutron stars. These rare events, observed across the cosmos, seemed to provide the ...
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