Astronomers have spotted a rare cosmic duo: a neutron star that rotates nearly a hundred times every second locked in an ultra-tight orbit with a semi-shredded star. The scientists who found the pair ...

An international team of astronomers using a state-of-the-art receiver system on the 305-m Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico has discovered a binary pulsar system which promises to be an ...

This aerial photo taken on June 22, 2023 shows China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) under maintenance in southwest China's Guizhou Province. China's FAST telescope ...

Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and their collaborators at home and abroad have discovered a binary pulsar with a 53-minute orbital ...

The pulsar is often compared to lighthouses because it emits beams of electromagnetic radiation that are pointed toward specific directions. A binary pulsar is a twin-star system made of a pulsar and ...

An international team of astronomers has spotted a binary pulsar that appears to behave very differently than most known binary systems in our galaxy. The most likely explanation, says the team, is ...

Using the data obtained by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), a research team led by Prof. PAN Zhichen and Prof. LI Di from the National Astronomical Observatories of ...

Black widow binary consists of a rapidly spinning neutron star, or pulsar, that is circling and slowly consuming a smaller companion star (Nasa) Astronomers have observed what appears to be a rare ...

A press release issued on 13 October 1993 says "The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize Physics for 1993 jointly to Russell A. Hulse and Joseph H. Taylor, Jr, both ...