Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are notoriously difficult to study. They are flashes of radio light that can outshine a galaxy but ...
But now, a rare burst has provided indications that FRBs likely originate near the star and that they share a feature with ...
The surface features of neutron stars are largely unknown. Nuclear theorists explored mountain building mechanisms active on ...
Fast radio bursts originate near neutron stars, revealing their magnetically chaotic environments and scintillation patterns.
By analyzing the "twinkling" of a specific burst, researchers pinpointed its origin to a region incredibly close to a neutron ...
The fleeting cosmic firework likely originated within the turbulent magnetosphere surrounding a distant neutron star. Fast ...
Learn how researchers have interpreted the story of one particular fast radio burst that emerged from a neutron star 200 ...
An international team of scientists led by McGill University researchers has provided the clearest evidence yet that some fast radio bursts (FRBs) — enigmatic, millisecond-long flashes of radio waves ...
The research highlights the value of the CHIME telescope, located in Penticton, B.C. It is renowned for its unmatched ability to detect thousands of FRBs daily. The sheer volume of data from CHIME ...
NASA astronaut Nick Hague will install patches to the agency’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) X-ray ...
One way to explore these ideas is to look at pulsars. Since pulsars are rotating neutron stars where their magnetic pole sweeps in our direction, we can measure the rate of rotation by timing the ...
A mysterious radio blast from space detected in 2022 originated in the magnetic field of an ultra-dense neutron star 200 ...