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Fast-spinning dead stars may reveal dark matter secrets

When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration shows a rapidly spinning neutron star surrounded by a blue magnetic field emitting jets of radio waves. | Credit: NASA Goddard/Walt Feimer Scientists plan to use dead star “clocks” to shed light on the universe’s most mysterious… Read More »

300 gamma-ray-bursting neutron stars found in a massive mass, some of them ‘spider pulsars’

The Fermi gamma-ray space telescope discovered nearly 300 rapidly rotating neutron stars. Each of the newly discovered objects scans two beams of radiation across the universe like a cosmic lighthouse. These neutron stars are known to rotate hundreds of times per second and are specifically called millisecond pulsars; Before Fermi’s launch in 2008, humanity was… Read More »