NASA’s NICER telescope recently watched as three hotspots on the surface of a crushed stellar core migrated and merged together. I discuss the result and […] Read More
Tag: neutron stars
NASA’s NICER telescope recently released the first-ever surface map of a pulsar, which came with some surprises. How did this finding “break” the standard model […] Read More
In my latest video, I talk about ring galaxies and how black holes and neutron stars in those rings shine in X-rays. But where do […] Read More
A recent image released by the Chandra X-ray Observatory showed a galaxy with a ring of black holes and neutron stars. Why does it have […] Read More