A possible evolutionary history of neutron stars is delineated, ranging from star formation through supernova explosions, X-ray and pulsar stages to an eventual pulsar turnoff via spin alignment, or magnetic field decay. New is the emphasis that there should be two populations of pulsars, the ...
“But neutron stars are different – they are so dense that dark matter particles are much more likely to interact with the star. If dark matter particles do collide with neutrons in the star, they will lose energy and become trapped. Over time, this would lead to an accumulation of ...
Types of Black Holes How We Detect Black Holes What Is a Black Hole? Artist concept of a giant black hole: The arrows show the paths of massive objects in and around the opening of the black hole. Photo courtesy NASA Stellar mass black holes form when massive stars die. If you...
As these neutrinos have zero electric charges, they are unaffected by electromagnetic fields. So, it is a difficult task to detect and study neutrinos. Every second, about 100 trillion neutrinos pass through our body. But, we cannot see or feel it. So, where do these trillions of neutrinos...
X-rays come from the hottest places in the universe including black hole and neutron stars' accretion disks where matter spirals at extreme speeds. High-temperature plasma that fills space between galaxies in galaxy clusters also emits X-rays, and so do stars including our sun. ...
How will NASA’s Roman Space Telescope detect kilonovae – brief flashes of light sent out by the merger of two neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole? In part, due to the telescope’s wide field of view. Roman’s view is 200 times larger than theHubble Space Telescope...
How do we perceive the link between the Universe in which we all live and Consciousness that we all share? What exactly binds the two together?
Do stars have planetary systems? How did Brahe measure planet and star movements? How does the Fermi Space Telescope detect waves? What is a large group of stars called? What do we mean by the star-gas-star cycle? What characterizes the planets that are closest to the sun? Most stars ar...
Snakes can actually detect infrared radiation, which is how they are able to locate warm-blooded prey in total darkness. Visible: This is the only part of the electromagnetic spectrum we can see. We see the different wavelengths in this band of the spectrum as the colors of the rainbow. ...
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