pulsars

MIT astronomers have locked onto a mysterious system 3,000 light years from Earth—a "black widow binary." The rapidly spinning neutron star, or pulsar, is circling and slowly consuming a smaller companion star, just like the mate-destroying…

The detection of ultra-low frequency gravitational waves is delivering insights into the development of the universe, according to researchers at the University of Birmingham. Gravitational waves that transverse the universe at the speed of…

Pulsars, the radiation pulses emitted by rotating neutron stars at very regular intervals, have very strong magnetic fields that funnel jets of particles out along the two magnetic poles to produce very powerful beams of light. When…