Like anthropologists piecing together the human family tree, astronomers have found that a misfit “skeleton” of a star may link two different kinds of stellar remains. The mysterious object, called ...

The discovery of a pulsar closely orbiting the candidate supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way (called Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A* in short) has been one of the main aims of pulsar ...

You might as well call PSR J1119-6127 sasquatch, because it seems to be a “missing link” in neutron stars, according to Walid Majid of JPL. At an announcement on January 6 at the 229th meeting of the ...

Are two different types of stars actually the same thing? Recent research shows that two kinds of exotic stars — known as pulsars and magnetars — may be a single type of star, but at different stages ...

In amongst that static you can hear a very sci-fi sounding swooshing noise every five and a half seconds. It is actually the sound of a new kind of pulsar — a radio magnetar — that was discovered at ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast cloud of high-energy particles called a wind nebula around a rare ultra-magnetic neutron star, or magnetar, for the first time. The find offers a unique window into ...

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Astronomers have discovered a magnetar at the centre of our Milky Way. This pulsar has an extremely strong magnetic field and enables researchers to investigate the direct vicinity of the black hole ...