Neutron stars are so named because in the simplest of models they are made of neutrons. They form when the core of a large star collapses, and the weight of gravity causes atoms to collapse. Electrons ...

Using the Five-hundred Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), astronomers from China and Australia have discovered five new pulsars, two of which turned out to have ultra-short spin periods. The finding ...

A neutron star in a dense stellar cluster completes 716 full rotations every single second, making it the fastest-spinning pulsar ever confirmed by direct radio observation. PSR J1748-2446ad, detected ...

Pulsars, the rapidly rotating neutron stars discovered over half a century ago, offer profound insights into extreme physics, including strong gravity and the behaviour of matter under extraordinary ...

A neutron star designated PSR J1748-2446ad completes 716 full rotations every second, making it the fastest-spinning stellar remnant ever detected. Sitting inside the dense globular cluster Terzan 5, ...

GUIYANG, 14 March (BelTA - People's Daily) - China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, has discovered 11 new pulsars so far ...

GUIYANG, 27 November (BelTA - China Daily) - China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world's largest filled-aperture and most sensitive radio telescope, has ...

Like cosmic lighthouses sweeping the universe with bursts of energy, pulsars have fascinated and baffled astronomers since they were first discovered 50 years ago. In two studies, international teams ...