A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used Frontier to chart the isospin density of a neutron star over a range of conditions. This illustration depicts isospin-dense ...

Astronomers continue to struggle in their hunt for dark matter, the elusive and mysterious form of matter that dominates the mass of the universe. But one astronomer proposes that, instead of building ...

Physicists have measured the microscopically thin skin of neutrons enclosing the insides of atoms of lead for the first time, finding that it's thicker than expected. The discovery could help to ...

How can we understand environments that can’t be replicated on Earth? That’s a challenge astrophysicists face all the time. In some cases, it’s largely a matter of figuring out how well-understood ...

We don't really know, but probably some truly bizarre physics. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Neutron stars are some of the ...

For astrophysicists, neutron stars stand out as objects of irresistible fascination - perhaps, in part, because of how difficult they are to decipher. But calculations conducted on the Frontier ...

Neutron stars are incredibly dense, city-sized remnants of massive stars. They form after a supernova when gravity overcomes electron degeneracy pressure. Some neutron stars, called pulsars, emit ...

Medvedev modeled wave diffraction off a circular reflecting region with radially varying index of refraction outside of it to better understand the Crab Nebula’s zebra pattern. LAWRENCE — A ...

A theoretical astrophysicist may have solved a nearly two-decade-old mystery over the origins of an unusual 'zebra' pattern seen in high-frequency radio pulses from the Crab Nebula. A theoretical ...