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A team of astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope has detected a faint but tantalizing signal from the center of the Milky Way: a possible millisecond pulsar spinning once every 8.19 milliseconds, ...

Magnetars are an extremely bright type of neutron star with an incredibly powerful magnetic field. Astronomers are still trying to work out exactly how magnetars form, but they theorize that the first ...

Scientists report a possible pulsar at the Milky Way’s center, discovered through radio observations by the Breakthrough Listen team using the Green Bank Telescope, offering a new laboratory for ...

An artistic illustration of the magnetar and the gamma-ray burst jet in this work (Illustration: Yuja Tian and Yuting Wu, Nanjing Zhijiao Cloud Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.; Scientific concept ...

Creating a neutron star Before you can get this ideal cosmic laboratory, a star first has to die. The end of a star’s life depends largely on its mass. Unremarkable stars like the Sun go out with a ...

A flash of high-energy radiation that rippled through space in December 2004 may have quietly rewritten part of the story for how the universe forges its heaviest elements — including gold, platinum ...

"This is the first time we have been able to observe the polarization of a magnetar in an active state." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Neutron stars escape collapse into a black hole thanks to degeneracy pressure produced by their neutrons, which is able to fight the crushing force of gravity. What exactly lies at the heart of a ...