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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields 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 ...

The general theory of relativity is a remarkably successful model for gravity. However, many of the best tests for it don’t push its limits: they measure phenomena where gravity is relatively weak.

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 ...