73 results for "pulsars"

Researchers have detected massive, mysterious objects floating through deep space that may be passing in front of pulsars and temporarily blocking their light pulses. These findings suggest the presence of...

Using advanced radio telescopes, astronomers have made a significant discovery of 10 new pulsars in the dense globular cluster Terzan 5, located in the constellation Sagittarius. These findings, resulting from...

Posted on Dec 17, 2019 in Astronomy, NASA, Science, Space Astrophysicists are radically expanding our knowledge of image of pulsars, the ancient remains of exploded stars so dense their gravity...

Posted on Sep 17, 2018 in Astronomy, Discovery, Science, Space “This particular neutron star belongs to a group of seven nearby X-ray pulsars — nicknamed ‘the Magnificent Seven’ — that...

Posted on Mar 3, 2018 in Cosmos, Discoveries, Solar System, Space New findings by the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope raise hopes of detecting other new millisecond pulsars, e.g., from a...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a stunning image of Westerlund 1, the largest remaining super star cluster in the Milky Way, revealing a dense collection of massive…

Recent studies have provided precise measurements of the nearest millisecond pulsar, PSR J0437-4715, revealing its radius to be 11.4 kilometers and its mass 1.4 times that of the sun. This...

A rapidly spinning neutron star, known as a pulsar, has been discovered by an intern at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Amaris McCarver, along with a team of astronomers....

For decades, many astronomers around the world have struggled to determine large-scale magnetic field features in the Milky Way. In a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal on May 10,...

Posted on May 8, 2022 in Alien Life, Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Big Bang, Black Holes, Cosmology, Dark Energy, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life, Galaxies, Gravitational Waves, Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space...

Posted on May 23, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope, Milky Way Galaxy, Origin of Life, Science, Space News, Technology, Universe Today’s stories...

Posted on May 3, 2022 in Astrobiology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Cosmology, Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Milky Way Galaxy, NASA, quantum physics, Science, Science News, Space...

Today’s stories range from The “Science-Fiction Star” -Is There a Dark-Universe Origin for Gravitational Waves? to A New Place for Consciousness in Our Understanding of the Universe to Massive Black...

Astronomers have known since the 1990s that planets exist around pulsars. It’s a reasonable hypothesis that planets might also exist around black holes, which have a weaker impact on their...

Posted on Mar 25, 2022 in Astronomy, Astrophysics A city-sized collapsed star, pulsar PSR J2030+4415 – the ancient remains of exploded stars so dense its gravity warps nearby space-time –...

Posted on Jan 30, 2022 in Science Our consistently strange Universe delivered another catch of fascinating news stories these past few days, ranging from an extraordinary black hole found in...

Posted on Feb 4, 2021 in Astronomy, Science In 1967, Jocelyn Bell, then a graduate student in astronomy at Cambridge University, noticed a strange signal, a series of sharp pulses...

In 1993 Stephen Hawking proposed in Black Holes and Baby Universes that there might be “primordial black holes which were formed in the early universe that could be less than...

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Posted on Jan 3, 2021 in Science (For the Holiday Season, from Christmas through the New Year’s Weekend, we’ll post 2020’s most viewed articles as ranked by Google Analytics.) “Using...

Posted on Jan 9, 2021 in Astronomy, Science When stars more than thirty times bigger than our sun explode, they produce a type of young neutron star called a magnetar...

Ever since astronomers reached a consensus in the 1980s that invisible “dark matter” binds galaxies together and gravitationally shapes the cosmos — experimentalists have hunted for the elusive nonluminous particles....

Posted on Nov 9, 2020 in Astronomy, Space, Universe New research has provided clues that galactic magnetars –young pulsars that spin more slowly than ordinary pulsars and have the most...

New findings by NANOGrav, the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves, could become the “discovery of the century” if the data has been generated by a network of giant...

Posted on Sep 28, 2020 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Science, Universe It’s been suggested by astrobiologists and science-fiction authors that there may be evolutionary parallels to Earth on distant worlds because...

“Everything we know and love about the universe and all the laws of physics as they apply, apply to four percent of the universe. That’s stunning,” says astronomer and “Cosmos”...

“The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe –the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time,” said...

Posted on Jul 31, 2020 in Astronomy, Black Holes, Science In the fall of 1967, Princeton’s great quantum physicist, John Archibald Wheeler was giving a lecture on pulsars at a...

“Using the pulsars we observe across the Milky Way galaxy, we are trying to be like a spider sitting in stillness in the middle of her web,” says Vanderbilt’s Stephen...

Posted on Jun 2, 2020 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics, Science Physicists at University of Helsinki’s have found evidence from recent gravitational-wave discoveries for the presence of exotic quark matter –QCD...

Posted on Jun 11, 2020 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Physics, Science Sometime between 1589 and 1592, the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, professor of mathematics at the University of Pisa, is said...

“Consider all the inanimate matter in the universe, all the dumb atoms, all the mindless molecules, all the oblivious dust grains and pebbles and rocks and iceballs and worlds and...

Posted on Feb 10, 2020 in Astronomy, Science Fast radio bursts (FRBs) — brief, bright flashes of radio waves that last a few milliseconds that release incredible energy–equivalent to the...

“After ruling out a range of potential experimental errors, we started to suspect that the interaction between the white dwarf and neutron star was not as simple as had been...

Posted on Dec 21, 2019 in Astronomy, Cosmos, Dark Matter, Science, Universe Did NASA scientists detect a dark matter signal from deep inside the Milky Way? In December of 2017,...

Posted on Dec 20, 2019 in Astronomy, Science, Space New research by NASA scientists suggests that Geminga, one of the brightest pulsars located about 800 light-years away in the constellation...

Posted on Dec 11, 2019 in Astronomy, Science, Space On December 5th, astronomers announced the discovery of the biggest black hole ever measured –a gargantuan black hole in galaxy cluster...

What is fascinating, says NASA’s principal investigator of the mystery, is the reason why scientists have spent so much time trying to find the black hole seeds –“because it sheds...

“Some strange signals have been found, but it’s hard to confirm their origins, because these signals do not repeat,” says Li Di, chief scientist at FAST, China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical...

“We were only looking for pairs of black holes at the time, and yet, through our selection technique, we stumbled upon this amazing system,” said Ryan Pfeifle of George Mason...

Posted on Apr 7, 2021 in Astronomy, Physics, Science, Space Though astronomers and physicists have studied and marveled at neutron stars for decades where just a single sugar-cube worth of...

Posted on Aug 29, 2019 in Astronomy, Science Insights from recent posts in The Galaxy on fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most baffling mysteries of the cosmos...

Posted on Aug 5, 2019 in Astronomy, Featured Articles, News, Space “Unlike Any Planet in Our Solar System” –New TESS Discovery “The Novacene Hypothesis” –Coming Eon of Human Hyperintelligence “Extremely...

Posted on Aug 5, 2019 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Science “It is fascinating to discover that a signal that traveled halfway through the universe, reaching our telescope after a journey of...

“Perhaps the most likely scenario for ‘life’ near a neutron star or black hole involves colonization … by robotic missions from a civilization around another nearby star,” astronomer James Cordes...

Posted on Jul 11, 2019 in Astronomy, News, Physics, Science, Space Astronomers have spotted a distant pair of titanic black holes each with a mass more than 800 million times...

Posted on May 30, 2019 in Astronomy, Science, String Theory A strange glow coming from the Milky Way’s center was thought to be due to a hidden population of pulsars....

Posted on May 4, 2019 in Astronomy, Dark Matter, Science “There’s something happening in the data we don’t understand,” said Rebecca Leane, a theoretical physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of...

Posted on Apr 23, 2019 in Astronomy, Gravitational Waves, Science Future Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) alerts may likely come from a globular cluster, with the closest cluster residing about...

Posted on May 11, 2021 in Astronomy, News, Science What would life be like on a planet orbiting a pulsar? Astronomers estimate that the Milky Way galaxy contains an estimated...