Sentences with phrase «as a neutron star collapsing»

One is a cataclysmic event, such as a neutron star collapsing into a black hole.

One is that they are caused by a cataclysmic event, such as a neutron star collapsing into a black hole or supernova.

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After a star explodes as a supernova, it usually leaves behind either a black hole or what's called a neutron star — the collapsed, high - density core of the former star.

A neutron star is the crushed core of a massive star that ran out of fuel, collapsed under its own weight, and exploded as a supernova.

«We know very well that black holes can be formed by the collapse of large stars, or as we have seen recently, the merger of two neutron stars,» said Savvas Koushiappas, an associate professor of physics at Brown University and coauthor of the study with Avi Loeb from Harvard University.

Brown dwarfs, less massive than stars, are nearly dark, as are collapsed stars — white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes.

Neutron stars, the extraordinarily dense stellar bodies created when massive stars collapse, are known to host the strongest magnetic fields in the universe — as much as a billion times more powerful than any human - made electromagnet.

Neutron stars, the extraordinarily dense stellar bodies created when massive stars collapse, are known to host the strongest magnetic fields in the universe — as much as a billion times more powerful than any man - made electromagnet.

This rules out the popular «Brown - Bethe» model, which says the maximum mass for a neutron star is about 1.5 solar masses before collapse into a black hole is inevitable, as well as other models.

A neutron star forms when a massive star explodes as a supernova, blowing off its outer layers while its core collapses.

Along with black holes, neutron stars are the result of stars collapsing under gravity once their fuel burns out, until their density is about the same as that of the nucleus of an atom, at which point the protons and electrons «melt» into pure neutrons.

That poorly understood material is found inside neutron stars — the collapsed remnants of once - mighty stars — and is now being mapped out, as scientists better characterize the weird matter.

A rapidly rotating but unseen companion star — one that collapsed as a neutron star or black hole at the time of the supernova — could have produced these jets.

Last year's blockbuster observations of two neutron stars merging revealed a collapse as it happened, enabling four different groups to converge on the maximum mass — about 2.2 times that of the sun.

Neutron stars are formed in a fraction of a second as a massive star collapses onto itself, compressing its matter to the density of an atomic nucleus.

Pulsars are rotating neutron stars, which are immensely dense stars created as a result of a massive star collapsing in on itself.

This newly - discovered pulsar — named PSR J1930 - 1852 — has the widest orbit ever observed around a neutron star, which is an immensely dense object created as a result of a massive star collapsing in on itself.