Recycling Pulsars – The Millisecond Matters…

[/caption] It’s a millisecond pulsar… a rapidly rotating neutron star and it’s about to reach the end of its mass gathering phase. For ages the vampire of this binary system has been sucking matter from a donor star. It has been busy, spinning at incredibly high rotational speeds of about 1 to 10 milliseconds and … Continue reading Recycling Pulsars – The Millisecond Matters…