We evolved the system up to a record-breaking 1.5 seconds of real time by using the Japanese supercomputer Fugaku." The researchers observed that following its merger, the binary neutron star system ...

A team of astronomers from The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and other universities have captured the first direct image of a young binary ...

The simulation run by Hayashi and his colleagues sheds new light on the complex physics of binary neutron star mergers, showing that when these mergers are followed by the formation of black holes, ...