Study Reveals How Neutron Star Mergers Spread Precious Metals Across the Universe
📰 Original title: Astrophysicists trace the origin of valuable metals in space, from colliding stars to merging galaxies
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NASA Discovers Crash of Extreme Stars in Unexpected Site
What's inside neutron stars? New model could sharpen gravitational-wave 'tide' clues
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-neutron-stars-sharpen-gravitational-tide.html
Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of atomic nuclei, and they possess some of the strongest gravitational fields of any known objects, surpassed only by black holes. First observed in the 1960s, much of the internal composition of neutron stars is still unknown. Scientists are beginning to look to gravitational waves emitted by binary neutron‐star inspirals—pairs of mutually orbiting neutron stars—as possible sources of information about their interiors.
Neutron stars form when massive stars exhaust nuclear fuel and collapse. Gravity compresses electrons and protons into neutrons, producing matter so dense one teaspoon would weigh over a billion tons on Earth.
🖥️ The researchers used the distributed volunteer computing project @einsteinathome and the @maxplanckgesellschaft's computing clusters Atlas, Raven, and Viper to analyze public data from the @LIGO detectors’ third observing run (O3).
🔍 They found all hardware injections — signals added artificially to the data by moving the LIGO mirrors — within the search range, and were the first ever to successfully detect the hardware injection no. 11.
🚀 While no astrophysical signals were observed, the team expects their O3 results to be competitive with LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA analyses based on yet unpublished data from the latest, fourth observing run (O4) data.
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Einstein@Home conducts most sensitive search for elusive continuous gravitational waves.
✨ Astronomers expect the Galactic population of neutron stars – compact remnants of supernova explosions – to be a promising source of continuous gravitational waves, which have yet to be detected.
🔭 Since the sky positions, spin frequencies, and frequency derivatives of individual neutron stars are unknown, wide-band, all-sky searches are one of the main tools used in the field. Researchers from the independent @maxplanckgesellschaft research group “Continuous Gravitational Waves” at the @mpi_grav have recently published the deepest all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves to date.
ℹ️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1403593/einstein-home-s-most-sensitive-continuous-gravitational-wave-search
📄 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae225a (Open Access)
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