Astronomers call this dilemma the angular momentum problem of star formation. The answer is blowing in the wind . One possible solution for this issue, scientists think, ...

We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...

A stronomers are scratching their heads over a recently discovered planet. The planet, dubbed TOI-6894b, orbits a star 238 ...

An international team, led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) researcher Ângela Santos, has made the first ...

Chinese researchers examining European data find freshly formed stars rotate much faster than their predecessors.

Chinese astronomers have employed NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to observe an eclipsing binary of the ...

Spiral galaxies are found to be strongly rotating, with an angular momentum higher by a factor of about 5 than ellipticals. In a new study, the researchers have traced back the dichotomy in the ...

That same principle we applied to a figure skater, about the conservation of angular momentum, leads us to the conclusion that neutron stars could complete more than 100 full rotations in a single ...

Essentially, a superfluid’s rotation forms tiny vortices that carry angular momentum. When these vortices escape the inner crust to the outer crust, they increase the star’s speed. Related Story ...

Small but Mighty. Despite their small diameters—about 12.5 miles (20 kilometers)—neutron stars boast nearly 1.5 times the mass of our sun, and are thus incredibly dense.