Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of How to Die in Space. He contributed this article to ...
Simulation of two neutron stars colliding (Credit: C Breu, L Rezzolla) Gravitational waves could be the key to detecting a new phase transition to quark matter when two neutron stars merge. In ...