Astronomers predict that a black hole or neutron star could be the cause for this dramatic event
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Astronomers use neutron star’s ‘glitch’ to reveal its secrets
These ‘glitches’ provide a rare opportunity to understand the three components of a neutron star
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How are pulsars used to identify our position in space?
Read on to find out how these beacons of electromagnetic radiation act like GPS satellites
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Astronomers conduct simulations of ‘pulsar in a box’
These new simulations reveal the mad movements of electrons and positrons caught in the intense magnetic field of the pulsar
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What is an accretion disk?
Often found around a star or black hole, we find out what an accretion disc is
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Astronomers use neutron stars to justify Einstein’s famous theory
This result is ten-times more precise than the previous best test of gravity, making the evidence for Einstein’s Strong Equivalence Principle that much stronger
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What is a magnetar?
Is a magnetar some kind of magnetic star? Find out here
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Zombie star feeds off its companion
ESA’s Integral space observatory spotted X-rays emitted from a unusual binary star system
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Astronomers spot light created by gravitational waves for the first time
Marking the beginning of a new era in astrophysics, scientists have detected ripples in space-time and electromagnetic radiation, or light, from the same event
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Astronomers detect gravitational waves from merging neutron stars for first time
Before now, the ripples in space-time had only been detected from black-hole mergers
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Radio Bursts could be erupting in the universe every second
Based on the analysis of FRB 121102, astronomers conclude that these bursts could be happening continuously all over the sky
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Second fastest-spinning pulsar discovered
This pulsar is devouring matter from its companion star to power its rapid rotation
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Spacecraft finds brightest and most-distant ‘dead star’
ESA’s XMM-Newton has found a pulsar – the spinning remains of a once-massive star – that is a thousand times brighter than previously thought possible
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Most luminous, energetic pair of stars found outside Milky Way
The dual-star system produces a cyclic flood of gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light
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Young magnetic star likely to be the slowest ever detected
Astronomers have found evidence for what is likely one of the most extreme pulsars, or rotating neutron stars, found
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Exotic matter inside universe’s densest stars mapped for the first time
By watching neutron stars merge, scientists have taken a look inside them
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New type of spinning dead star spotted in the Andromeda Galaxy
Decades of searching in the Milky Way’s nearby ‘twin’ galaxy Andromeda have finally paid off, with the discovery of an elusive breed of stellar corpse, a neutron star
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5 facts about binary stars
5 Amazing facts about these stellar twins
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Astronomers date youngest X-ray binary
A blast from the past has allowed an age for the youngest X-ray binary to be estimated.