The MeerKat Radio Telescope discovered an unknown object in the Milky Way heavier than the largest neutron star but lighter than the smallest black holes.
Astronomers have made an "exciting" yet puzzling discovery lurking some 40,000 light-years away but still within the confines of our galaxy: an object that's far heavier than any other known neutron star, but too light to be classified as a black hole, spinning around a pulsar. In other words, the object falls into a […]