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"What is remarkable is that the time between pulse pairs seems to follow a choreographed pattern." Using the world's most ...
Observations of a pulsar, consisting of a dead star spinning 600 times a second, and feasting on a stellar companion reveal ...
Fast-spinning objects that are not perfectly symmetrical are predicted to radiate away energy in gravitational waves, with faster objects unleashing much more energy than slower ones.
The fastest-spinning white dwarf ever discovered is a shrinking cosmic vampire feasting on a stellar companion. A feeding process is pushing the dead star toward an imminent supernova explosion.
World champion Luke Littler has set up a new project away from the sport, which is expected to see him rake in a very heft ...
July 27 -- Squeeze a beach ball and it will flatten. Now scientists have shown that a star will bulge in the middle in a similar way if spinning at very high velocity. For a long time scientists ...
A TRIO of Coronation Street icons have signed up to the soap’s money-spinning tour set to take place this September. The ...
Chandra X-ray Observatory obtained a video of the Vela pulsar, a neutron star 12 miles in diameter that makes a complete rotation in 89 milliseconds.
In the binary system 4U 1820-30, a neutron star is spinning so fast around its center axis that it completes a breathtaking 716 rotations per second. No stars have been discovered spinning faster ...
That spinning loading icon that happens when your computer is trying to, well, compute, is actually called the "throbber." ...
The fastest-spinning white dwarf ever discovered is a shrinking cosmic vampire feasting on a stellar companion. A feeding process is pushing the dead star toward an imminent supernova explosion.