A Pulsar’s Strange Slowdown Turns Out to Be the Pull of a Hidden Third Star
For a while, PSR J0435+3233 looked like it was breaking the rules. The millisecond pulsar, picked up by China’s giant FAST radio dish, spins about 312 times a second, yet…
Record-Breaking Radio Burst Points to Young Magnetars as the Source of Cosmic Flashes
A flash of radio waves that lasted only milliseconds has given astronomers a new clue about what produces fast radio bursts. The signal, catalogued as FRB 20240304B, came from a…