Data from the Chandra X-ray Telescope has revealed spider pulsars, which are a group of dead stars, in globular cluster Omega Centauri "preying' on nearby stars. The Chandra team explains. Credit: ...
From discovering pulsars to conducting sensitive observations of atomic hydrogen that shed new light on galaxy formation -- and more recently, detecting fast radio bursts -- radio astronomy has ...
These incredibly dense objects are the most compact known, with a mass like the sun but condensed to the size of a city. Many neutron stars are observed as pulsars, emitting regular pulses of ...
In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers from IIT Guwahati and ISRO have found that X-rays emitted by the first known Galactic Ultraluminous X-ray Pulsar, Swift J0243.6+6124, show unexpectedly ...