Pulsars
We Could Snoop on Extraterrestrial Communications Networks
SETI researchers have directed their search toward interesting star systems where extraterrestrial civilizations could send signals toward Earth. According to…
Is this the Lightest Black Hole or Heaviest Neutron Star?
About 40,000 light-years away, a rapidly spinning object has a companion that's confounding astronomers. It's heavier than the heaviest neutron…
Do Neutron Stars Have Mountains? Gravitational Wave Observatories Could Detect Them
Neutron stars are the incredibly dense remnants from massive star supernovae. Although they're pulled into dense spheres by their intense…
Spider Pulsars are Tearing Apart Stars in the Omega Cluster
Pulsars are extreme objects. They're what's left over when a massive star collapses on itself and explodes as a supernova.…
Are Pulsars the Key to Finding Dark Matter?
The search for dark matter continues, with astronomers developing new hypotheses to search for this invisible gravitational influence on the…
A Bizarre Pulsar Switches Between Two Brightness Modes. Astronomers Finally Figured Out Why.
Pulsars are the lighthouses of the universe. These rotating dead stars shoot twin jets of radiation from their poles, usually…
Astronomers are Hoping the Event Horizon Telescope saw Pulsars Near the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope is a collection of radio telescopes across the globe that simultaneously gathered data about the Milky…
Pulsars Could Help Map the Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way
The BlackHoleCam project, part of the Event Horizon Telescope consortium, will use the powerful EHT array to search for pulsars…
Soon Every Spacecraft can Navigate the Solar System Autonomously Using Pulsars
If you want to know where you are in space, you’d better bring along a map. But it’s a little…
Astronomers use the World's Biggest Radio Telescope to map new Features of the Milky Way
Using China's FAST radio telescope, a team of Chinese researchers observed previously-unmapped regions of the Milky Way and made some…