Extreme Astrophysics and the Hidden Role of Neutrinos We examine one of the most energetic and transformative events in the unive...
Take a teaspoon. Fill it, in your imagination, with the densest material the universe has ever managed to produce. That single spoonful would outweigh a mountain. This is neutron star matter, and it sits at the outer edge of what physics permits to exist without collapsing into a black hole. These objects are not merely extreme. They are the universe stress-testing its own rules.
Mergers of neutron stars in binary systems have great potential as potential sites for rapid neutron capture nucleosynthesis. The...