A pulsar is up to billions of times denser than the typical star and is capable of rotating more than 700 times per second. The sheer density and speed combine to give strong magnetic fields that pulsate powerful beams of light that are captured by astronomers. Dead stars or not, these massive bodies are being excitedly observed and discussed as a result of this latest find, largely due to how tightly they are clustered together.
The dead stars were found in a spot more than 18,000 light years away from the Earth by equipment that included the United States National Science Foundation Green Bank Telescope (NSF GBT) and the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory’s MeerKAT Telescope. The international team of scientists consisted of astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy.
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