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Unique Pulsar May Be Orbiting Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole, Posing An Incredible Test For Einstein’s RelativityA picture of the green bank radio dish with bheing the center of the milky way. An inset show an artist impression of the supermassive black hole and a bright pulsar sending a flash of light.

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Unique Pulsar May Be Orbiting Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole, Posing An Incredible Test For Einstein’s RelativityA picture of the green bank radio dish with bheing the center of the milky way. An inset show an artist impression of the supermassive black hole and a bright pulsar sending a flash of light.
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Unique Pulsar May Be Orbiting Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole, Posing An Incredible Test For Einstein’s Relativity

clock-iconFebruary 10, 2026
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"What The Heck Is This?": JWST Reveals Bizarre Exoplanet With Inexplicable CompositionThis artist’s concept shows what the exoplanet called PSR J2322-2650b as it orbits a rapidly spinning neutron star called a pulsar. The gravity has the planet shaped like a lemon.

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"What The Heck Is This?": JWST Reveals Bizarre Exoplanet With Inexplicable CompositionThis artist’s concept shows what the exoplanet called PSR J2322-2650b as it orbits a rapidly spinning neutron star called a pulsar. The gravity has the planet shaped like a lemon.
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"What The Heck Is This?": JWST Reveals Bizarre Exoplanet With Inexplicable Composition

clock-iconDecember 16, 2025
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Pulsar Fleeing A Supernova Spotted Where Neither Of Them Should BeThe pixelated map show the two sources. the pulsar is bright and mostly circular, away from it there is a blob that looks cooler, that is the supernova remnant.

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Pulsar Fleeing A Supernova Spotted Where Neither Of Them Should BeThe pixelated map show the two sources. the pulsar is bright and mostly circular, away from it there is a blob that looks cooler, that is the supernova remnant.
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Pulsar Fleeing A Supernova Spotted Where Neither Of Them Should Be

clock-iconAugust 29, 2025
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Thieving Pulsar Spinning 592 Times A Second Reveals New Understanding Of Where Its X-Rays Come FromAn artist’s illustration depicting the central regions of the binary system PSR J1023+0038, including the pulsar as a bright small sphere, the inner accretion disc as an orange flat torus, and the pulsar wind as waves from the pulsar

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Thieving Pulsar Spinning 592 Times A Second Reveals New Understanding Of Where Its X-Rays Come FromAn artist’s illustration depicting the central regions of the binary system PSR J1023+0038, including the pulsar as a bright small sphere, the inner accretion disc as an orange flat torus, and the pulsar wind as waves from the pulsar
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Thieving Pulsar Spinning 592 Times A Second Reveals New Understanding Of Where Its X-Rays Come From

clock-iconJuly 18, 2025
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Long-Period Radio Transient Signals Puzzle Astronomers – One That’s Speeding Up May Be The Strangest Yetcomputer generated neon colored glowing high energy singularity in space

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Long-Period Radio Transient Signals Puzzle Astronomers – One That’s Speeding Up May Be The Strangest Yetcomputer generated neon colored glowing high energy singularity in space
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Long-Period Radio Transient Signals Puzzle Astronomers – One That’s Speeding Up May Be The Strangest Yet

clock-iconJuly 15, 2025
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Dead Pulsars Are Emitting Radio Waves. Massive "Mountains" Measuring 1 Centimeter Tall Could Be To BlameArtist impression of a pulsar.

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Dead Pulsars Are Emitting Radio Waves. Massive "Mountains" Measuring 1 Centimeter Tall Could Be To BlameArtist impression of a pulsar.
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Dead Pulsars Are Emitting Radio Waves. Massive "Mountains" Measuring 1 Centimeter Tall Could Be To Blame

clock-iconJune 25, 2025
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Astronomers Find Odd Radio Signal Coming From Fracture In Milky Way's "Cosmic Snake"The "Cosmic Snake" with a mysterious fracture.

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Astronomers Find Odd Radio Signal Coming From Fracture In Milky Way's "Cosmic Snake"The "Cosmic Snake" with a mysterious fracture.
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Astronomers Find Odd Radio Signal Coming From Fracture In Milky Way's "Cosmic Snake"

clock-iconMay 5, 2025
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System Of Three Dead Stars Has Suspected Smallest Exoplanet Ever FoundArtist's impression of J0337+1715 and its two orbiting white dwarfs, one nearby and one at much greater distance. The suspected planet would be too small and distant to see.

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System Of Three Dead Stars Has Suspected Smallest Exoplanet Ever FoundArtist's impression of J0337+1715 and its two orbiting white dwarfs, one nearby and one at much greater distance. The suspected planet would be too small and distant to see.
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System Of Three Dead Stars Has Suspected Smallest Exoplanet Ever Found

clock-iconJanuary 27, 2025
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Suspected Pulsar Is Spinning Hundreds Of Times More Slowly Than Ought To Be PossibleArtist's representation of the magnetar suspected of producing the longest period radio transient ever found, and the radio telescope that detected its signal.

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Suspected Pulsar Is Spinning Hundreds Of Times More Slowly Than Ought To Be PossibleArtist's representation of the magnetar suspected of producing the longest period radio transient ever found, and the radio telescope that detected its signal.
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Suspected Pulsar Is Spinning Hundreds Of Times More Slowly Than Ought To Be Possible

clock-iconJanuary 17, 2025
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Surprise Anomaly In Gravitational Wave Background Hints At Supermassive Black Hole CollisionArtist impression show one of the MeerKAT antennae in the foreground behind in the sky, a warp lattice show the effect of gravity with exaggerated supermassive black holes warping galaxies

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Surprise Anomaly In Gravitational Wave Background Hints At Supermassive Black Hole CollisionArtist impression show one of the MeerKAT antennae in the foreground behind in the sky, a warp lattice show the effect of gravity with exaggerated supermassive black holes warping galaxies
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Surprise Anomaly In Gravitational Wave Background Hints At Supermassive Black Hole Collision

clock-iconDecember 3, 2024
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Universe’s "Timekeepers" Hint At Invisible Structures Floating In The Milky WayThis artists concept shows the two jets from a pulsar.

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Universe’s "Timekeepers" Hint At Invisible Structures Floating In The Milky WayThis artists concept shows the two jets from a pulsar.
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Universe’s "Timekeepers" Hint At Invisible Structures Floating In The Milky Way

clock-iconJuly 16, 2024
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Newly Discovered Astronomical Object Is Right On The Edge Of Two Extreme PossibilitiesAn artist's impression of the newly discovered system, assuming that the massive companion of the radio pulsar (bright blue star in the background) is a black hole (foreground). Both objects are 8 million kilometres apart and orbit each other every 7 days.

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Newly Discovered Astronomical Object Is Right On The Edge Of Two Extreme PossibilitiesAn artist's impression of the newly discovered system, assuming that the massive companion of the radio pulsar (bright blue star in the background) is a black hole (foreground). Both objects are 8 million kilometres apart and orbit each other every 7 days.
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Newly Discovered Astronomical Object Is Right On The Edge Of Two Extreme Possibilities

clock-iconJanuary 22, 2024
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What Is The Fastest Solid Object We Know?Artist's impression of a pulsar, one of which, PSR J1748-2446ad, is the fastest turning object we know

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What Is The Fastest Solid Object We Know?Artist's impression of a pulsar, one of which, PSR J1748-2446ad, is the fastest turning object we know
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What Is The Fastest Solid Object We Know?

clock-iconApril 19, 2023
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Gamma-Ray Eclipses Have Been Spotted For The First TimeA star in the foreground is covered in a gassy shroud as a pulsar in the background its emitting twin jets of material.

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Gamma-Ray Eclipses Have Been Spotted For The First TimeA star in the foreground is covered in a gassy shroud as a pulsar in the background its emitting twin jets of material.
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Gamma-Ray Eclipses Have Been Spotted For The First Time

clock-iconJanuary 27, 2023
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Star Wreck Is An Unexpected Source Of the Most Extreme Cosmic RaysIllustration of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in space. Image Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

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Star Wreck Is An Unexpected Source Of the Most Extreme Cosmic RaysIllustration of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in space. Image Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
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Star Wreck Is An Unexpected Source Of the Most Extreme Cosmic Rays

clock-iconAugust 11, 2022
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