Mystery of strobing pulsar may be solved

An international group of scientists and a massive observing campaign may have uncovered the reason behind a distant pulsar’s flashy behavior. This pulsar, dubbed PSR J1023+0038, has two different modes of brightness — and switches between them almost constantly, which may be due to sudden ejections of matter. “We have discovered that the mode switchingContinue reading “Mystery of strobing pulsar may be solved”
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