Fast radio bursts originate near neutron stars, revealing their magnetically chaotic environments and scintillation patterns.
Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with ...
It was first revealed by a gravitational wave detector that taps into a multitude of rapidly spinning neutron stars, or "pulsars," and a precise time-keeping instrument called a pulsar timing ...
Recent discoveries reveal that bursts of slow pulsing radio waves originate from a binary star system consisting of a red ...
A new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by enormous black hole collisions paints a surprisingly loud and ...
An international team of astronomers has reported the discovery of a new pulsar, which received the designation PSR ...
Over the last few years, though, radio astronomers discovered exactly 10 of these extremely slow signals. The most recent and ...
More information: Kathrin Grunthal et al, The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array: Maps of the gravitational-wave sky with the 4.5 year data release, arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.01214 ...
MeerKAT’s Pulsar Timing Array has revealed a surprising gravitational wave background, offering new insights into cosmic events.