What happens when neutron stars collide?
June 18, 2024
June 18, 2024
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, June 18 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news:
When stars collapse, they can leave behind incredibly dense but relatively small and cold remnants called neutron stars. If two stars collapse in close proximity, the leftover binary neutron stars spiral in and eventually collide, and the interface where the two stars begin merging becomes incredibly hot. New simulations of these events show hot neutrinos -- tiny, essentially massless . . .
When stars collapse, they can leave behind incredibly dense but relatively small and cold remnants called neutron stars. If two stars collapse in close proximity, the leftover binary neutron stars spiral in and eventually collide, and the interface where the two stars begin merging becomes incredibly hot. New simulations of these events show hot neutrinos -- tiny, essentially massless . . .