If the pulsar is confirmed, it could enable more precise measurements of the space-time around the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole ...

Scientists hope to probe the nature of general relativity through a possible pulsar found in the center of the Milky Way, ...

Confirming a pulsar star would enable unprecedented tests of General Relativity. Such a discovery would revolutionize physics ...

At the center of the Milky Way, a supermassive black hole hides behind veils of dust, gas, and warped spacetime. Now a ...

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Neutron stars are so named because in the simplest of models they are made of neutrons. They form when the core of a large star collapses, and the weight of gravity causes atoms to collapse. Electrons ...

Astronomers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville may have found the closest evidence yet of a hidden clump of dark ...

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Astronomers have uncovered the strange case of a neutron star with the peculiar ability to transform from a radio pulsar into an X-ray pulsar and back again. This star’s capricious behavior appears to ...

These speedy pulsars get their name from having spin periods in the milliseconds, whereas normal neutron stars spin in the seconds range. The amped-up speeds of millisecond pulsars are likely thanks ...