Using the MeerKAT Telescope, astronomers found a mysterious object in the Milky Way's black hole mass gap, challenging existing astronomical classifications and offering a unique opportunity to study the universe's most extreme conditions. An international team of astronomers has found a new and
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The FINANCIAL A group of astronomers has discovered 8 millisecond pulsars located within the dense clusters of stars, known as “globular clusters , using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope.
According to The University of Manchester, millisecond pulsars are neutron stars, the most compact star known, that spin up to 700 times per second. This is the first pulsar discovery using the MeerKAT antennas and it comes from the synergic work of two international collaborations, TRAPUM and MeerTIME, with the findings detailed in a Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society paper published today.
Millisecond pulsars are extremely compact stars mainly made up of neutrons, and are amongst the most extreme objects in the universe: they pack hundreds of thousands of times the mass of the Earth in a sphere with a diameter of about 24 km; and spin at a rate of hundreds of rotations per second. They emit a beam of radio waves that are detected by the observer at every
A group of astronomers has discovered 8 millisecond pulsars located within the dense clusters of stars, known as “globular clusters'', using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope.Millisecond pulsars are neutron stars, the most compact star known, th