Pulsars

Could pulsars shine a flashlight on the mysteries of supermassive black holes?

By Elizabeth Rayne 1 month ago

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What is spewing weird radio signals from the middle of the galaxy?

By Elizabeth Rayne 2 months ago

Artwork depicting a millisecond pulsar, sped up to phenomenal rotation rates by material it's eating from its companion star. Credit: NASA / GSFC SVS / Dana Berry

Chinese radio telescope finds hundreds of new pulsars

By Phil Plait 5 months ago

A neutron star is incredibly small and dense, packing the mass of the Sun into a ball just a few kilometers across. This artwork depicts one compared to Manhattan. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Neutron stars may be quite a bit bigger than previously thought

By Phil Plait 5 months ago

A composite of Hoinga in X-rays (magenta) and radio (blue). Extremely hot gas filling the remnant emits X-rays, while electrons whizzing around magnetic fields at the edge of the shell structure generate radio waves.

A huge cloud of expanding supernova debris was found hidden in plain sight

By Phil Plait 7 months ago

Is there an angry baby neutron star in the middle of Supernova 1987A?

By Phil Plait 8 months ago

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Astronomers may be hearing the whisper of billions of black holes merging across the Universe

By Phil Plait 10 months ago

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Chandra X-ray Observatory confirms newly-found baby magnetar doubles as a pulsar

By Jeff Spry 10 months ago

Artwork depicting gravitational waves distorting space, changing the way neutron star pulses arrive at Earth. Credit: David Champion

Pulsars, black holes, spacetime, and the search for the center of the solar system

By Phil Plait 1 year ago

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Gargantuan objects in space fall just like Einstein predicted they would - even pulsars

By Elizabeth Rayne 1 year ago