neutron stars
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Hidden Secrets Of Pulsars Revealed By Trippy Computer Simulations
A new computer model is revealing the unseen and often bizarre behaviours of particles streaming around rapidly spinning neutron stars, also known as pulsars.
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SETI’s New Neural Network Detects Many More Fast Radio Bursts From A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Researchers with the University of California, Berkeley’s SETI Research Center Breakthrough Listen team have deployed new neural net technology to help analyse the reams of data they’ve collected — and they quickly discovered a set of mysterious, as-of-yet unexplained fast radio bursts from a distant galaxy, per TechCrunch.
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Einstein’s Theory Of Gravity Holds Up On Test Of A Three-Star System
Scientists understand gravity pretty well when it comes to two objects, but add a third, and you have chaos — a system that’s impossible to explain with our simplest equations. But you also have a way to test the limits of Einstein’s theory of gravity.
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Scientists Observe ‘Black Widow’ Pulsar In Mind-Boggling Resolution
Thanks to a quirk of astrophysics, astronomers were able to observe features just tens of kilometers apart near a spinning neutron star located 6,500 light-years away from Earth. This is like using a telescope in your backyard to see DNA strands on the moon.