Attention arachno-astronomers: a third class of “spider” pulsars could illuminate the mysterious evolution of the most boring (and ubiquitous) millisecond pulsar binaries.
What can we learn from a compact object that shows us all of its sides simultaneously?
Results from the first systematic study of the demographics of neutron star – white dwarf mergers!
In Be/X-ray binaries — systems in which a Be star spins so fast that it throws its own matter away towards its neutron star companion — it’s possible for accretion discs to form that spin backwards. What does this mean for the stars?
New polarisation data confirms that pulsations from a white dwarf system are powered by the same process that causes pulsars.
Has a counterpart finally been detected for the ever-elusive fast radio bursts that have been detected outside of our Galaxy? Well, that’s a tricky question…