Tag: millisecond pulsars

• Pulsar eats companion star, burps gamma rays

  Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars—the dense remnants of stars much more massive than the Sun. Some pulsars are in binary systems, and when they feed off their companion star, their rotation rate can increase until they’re spinning hundreds of times per second. Known as millisecond pulsars, these are often also strong emitters of gamma…

  Matthew R. Francis

  October 25, 2012

  Ars Technica, Writing for Other Sites

  gamma ray astronomy, millisecond pulsars, pulsars