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The latter helped refine the locations of these pulsars, which are spinning neutron stars.
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John Loeffler, Space.com, 7 Feb. 2025
Then in 1993, millisecond X-ray pulsars were discovered.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2018
Their origins are not fully understood, but they are expected to be produced by some of the most powerful events in the Universe, from collapsing stars and pulsars to the volatile environments around the massive black holes at the centers of galaxies.
—Matt Von Hippel, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2024
This is the concept that gravitational waves passing between us and a pulsar could disrupt the timing of a pulsar’s radio pulses.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Dec. 2024
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John Loeffler, Space.com, 7 Feb. 2025
Then in 1993, millisecond X-ray pulsars were discovered.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2018
Their origins are not fully understood, but they are expected to be produced by some of the most powerful events in the Universe, from collapsing stars and pulsars to the volatile environments around the massive black holes at the centers of galaxies.
—Matt Von Hippel, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2024
This is the concept that gravitational waves passing between us and a pulsar could disrupt the timing of a pulsar’s radio pulses.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Dec. 2024
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That means that this dataset of nearby supernovas is several times larger than previous similar samples.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Among the supernovas in the data will be other transient events such as variable stars and kilonovas, the violent collision between extreme dense stellar remnants called neutron stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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The observations also contain a small sample of quasars, the bright hearts of active galaxies powered by feeding supermassive black holes, which, because of their incredible luminosity, can be seen even further away.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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Perhaps the gamma rays were produced in events that gave rise to the radio outbursts of quasars.—
Mark Fischetti,
Scientific American,
17 Mar. 2025
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Imaging the innermost circumstellar environment of the red supergiant WOH G64 in the Large Magellanic Cloud.—
Tom Howarth,
Newsweek,
21 Nov. 2024
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Unlike other supergiants, however, a segment of Bathynomus vaderi’s back section narrows and curves backward in a unique way.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Jan. 2025
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Avalanche terrain is a world of numerous variables, contradictions, and compounding human error.—
Ashley Thess,
Outdoor Life,
14 Mar. 2025
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Traditional retirement planning doesn’t account for all these variables.—
Ty Bernicke,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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This sell-off indicated a sense that the next wave of AI models may not require the tens of thousands of top-end GPUs that Silicon Valley behemoths have amassed into computing superclusters for the purposes of accelerating their AI innovation.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
28 Jan. 2025
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For instance, Oracle recently chose AMD’s accelerated computing chips to power its latest supercluster for high-intensity AI workloads, after testing showed that AMD’s GPUs delivered low latency and strong performance at a competitive price.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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As the star's core rapidly crushes down to form a neutron star, the outer layers and most of the star's mass are blown away in a core-collapse supernova.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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That year observations of a merging neutron star revealed that gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves arrived at Earth within three seconds of each other—after traversing a distance of 130 million light-years.—
Paul M. Sutter,
Scientific American,
26 Feb. 2025
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But further observations of this and other white dwarf stars would be needed to clarify the conundrum.—
Michael Irving,
New Atlas,
9 Mar. 2025
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Type Ia supernova explosions spur the destruction of white dwarf stars that have accreted too much mass.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Hypervelocity stars are thought to be created when a binary star system gets too close to a supermassive black hole.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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This nova is especially exciting because the white dwarf star on which it is found exists in a particularly unusual binary star system.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Pulsar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulsar. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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