Mysterious Galactic Signals: Magnetar Observations Shed New Light on Fast Radio Bursts
An international team reports on a radio pulsar phase of a Galactic magnetar that emitted a fast radio burst in 2020; observations suggest unique origins…
An international team reports on a radio pulsar phase of a Galactic magnetar that emitted a fast radio burst in 2020; observations suggest unique origins…
Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC), along with their international partners, used the Five-hundred-meter Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) to identify…
Using the FAST telescope, researchers discovered unique “dwarf pulses” from pulsar PSR B2111+46, potentially unveiling unknown aspects of pulsar radiation and plasma conditions. Using the…
A research group from the University of Warwick has discovered a rare white dwarf pulsar for only the second time, providing significant insights into stellar…
New finding offers clues to “missing” pulsars. MSPs, or millisecond pulsars, are evolved neutron stars with brief spin periods that underwent extensive mass transfer during…
Occasionally pulsars—rapidly-spinning remnants of stars that flash like a lighthouse—show extreme variations in brightness. Astrophysicists predict that these short bursts of brightness occur because dense…
Observations of faint, planet-size star help weigh its millisecond pulsar companion. A dense, collapsed star has shredded and consumed nearly the entire mass of its…
30 years ago, the first-ever exoplanets were discovered around a rapidly rotating star, called a pulsar. Now, astronomers have revealed that these planets may be…
A young pulsar has been discovered blazing through the Milky Way at a speed of over a million miles per hour. This stellar speedster, witnessed…
Astronomers analyzing data from the VLA Sky Survey (VLASS) have discovered one of the youngest known neutron stars — the superdense remnant of a massive…
A pulsar is racing through the debris of an exploded star at a speed of over a million miles per hour. To measure this, researchers…
When a massive star runs out of fuel and collapses, it may leave behind a neutron star. (Unless the leftover mass is too great, in…
The system, which may have originated near the center of the Milky Way, is orbited by a third stellar companion. The flashing of a nearby…
Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have found an alternative explanation for a mysterious gamma-ray signal coming from the center of the galaxy, which…
The High Time Resolution Universe Pulsar Survey Double neutron star (DNS) systems in tight orbits are fantastic laboratories to test Einstein’s general theory of relativity….
NASA’s FERMI Satellite Hunts for Extremely Long-wavelength Gravitational-Wave Signals Coalescing supermassive black holes in the centers of merging galaxies fill the universe with low-frequency gravitational…
A city-sized collapsed star has generated a beam of matter and antimatter that stretches for trillions of miles. Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed…
Astronomers have imaged a beam of matter and antimatter that is 40 trillion miles long with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The record-breaking beam is powered…