The mysterious origin of long gamma-ray bursts may finally be revealed
by A screenshot from a computer simulation shows jets pushing the material around a black hole created by a merger to send out long gamma-ray bursts. …
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X-ray telescope catches ‘spider pulsars’ eating stars like cosmic black widows (image)
Space-based NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory after watching a “mess” of spider pulsars devouring their companion stars in the globular cluster Omega Centauri. These data could …
300 gamma-ray burst neutron stars found in massive event — some of them ‘spider pulsars’
The Fermi gamma-ray space telescope has discovered about 300 fast-spinning neutron stars. Each newly discovered object sweeps two beams of radiation across the universe like …