Astronomers have discovered a mysterious pulsar that is launching accreted matter from its companion star like 'cosmic cannonballs.'
This pulsar is flinging "enormous amounts of matter" at "incredibly high speeds."Cosmic Cannonballs
"We have witnessed extraordinary cosmic events where enormous amounts of matter, similar to cosmic cannonballs, are launched into space within a very brief time span of tens of seconds from a small, dense object rotating at incredibly high speeds," said lead study author Maria Cristina Baglio, a researcher at New York University Abu Dhabi, in aThe unusual pulsar appears to switch between a "high" and "low" mode, first giving off bright X-rays along with UV and...
Yet plenty of questions remain. For instance, we still don't know if PSR J1023+0038 is unique in the universe.
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