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The simulation also predicts the possible formation of a rare, hypothetical object known as a black hole pulsar.
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Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 5 June 2025
But pulsars flash much faster than ASKAP J1832 does, on the order of milliseconds to seconds.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 May 2025
The telescope will also be able to measure an unprecedented number of pulsars—spinning stellar remnants that beam electromagnetic radiation out along their magnetic poles.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Nov. 2017
There’s also that classic album cover, which Rolling Stone named as the greatest ever — a haunting image of a pulsar, lonely out in space, 978 light years away.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2025
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Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 5 June 2025
But pulsars flash much faster than ASKAP J1832 does, on the order of milliseconds to seconds.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 May 2025
The telescope will also be able to measure an unprecedented number of pulsars—spinning stellar remnants that beam electromagnetic radiation out along their magnetic poles.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Nov. 2017
There’s also that classic album cover, which Rolling Stone named as the greatest ever — a haunting image of a pulsar, lonely out in space, 978 light years away.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2025
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The Fireworks Galaxy's nickname stems from the 10 observable supernovas seen brightening its expanse over the past century; for comparison, our galaxy is only expected to manifest one or maybe two such events over the same period of time.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
16 July 2025
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Edges nearly everywhere outside of not having a supernova like Connor McDavid or Leon Draisaitl on their team instead.—
Eric Stephens,
New York Times,
2 May 2025
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Stars burn like celestial nuclear fusion reactors, quasars emit thousands of times the luminosity of the Milky Way galaxy, and asteroids slam into planets.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
4 June 2025
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Since both quasars and galaxy mergers happened far more often in the Universe’s first few billion years, the astronomers essentially had to look back in time to see them.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
21 May 2025
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Even though novas are exceptionally bright, supernovas are brighter—reaching billions of times brighter than the sun at their peak.—
Elizabeth Gamillo,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 July 2025
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Recorded live at the Lincoln Center, the band plays a bossa-nova take on the song while Gaga sings solo, wearing one of Cher’s own wigs.—
Kristen S. Hé,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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Because of its proximity to the dying supergiant star, gravitational forces will cause Betelbuddy to spiral into Betelgeuse within the next 10,000 years, per a statement from the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 July 2025
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That’s well within the red supergiant star’s outer atmosphere.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
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Moreover, real-world scenarios often have too many variables to be modeled precisely, creating gaps between theoretical predictions and actual behavior.—
Ali Faizan Rizvi,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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And all of those variables depend, in turn, on whether Trump decides to temper the policies — as he’s occasionally proved willing to do, especially when financial markets react badly.—
Jonathan Levin,
Twin Cities,
20 July 2025
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Zuckerberg said Meta’s first supercluster is called Prometheus, and that the company is building several other multi-gigawatt clusters.—
Ashley Capoot,
CNBC,
14 July 2025
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The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, is dwarfed by the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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For example, colliding neutron stars can release enormous amounts of energy – and elements such as gold – on their way to forming black holes.—
Stephen L. Levy,
The Conversation,
23 June 2025
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Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars that send out brief radio wave pulses at rapid intervals.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
15 May 2025
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Using the largest catalog of exploding white dwarf vampire stars ever gathered has provided further evidence that dark energy, the mysterious force accelerating the expansion of the universe, is getting weaker.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
24 July 2025
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What’s more, other recent work, including discoveries by other researchers at UC Irvine, have found that tens of billions of white dwarf stars once believed to be non-starters in the search for life might, in fact, generate enough heat to make a planet habitable.—
Andre Mouchard,
Oc Register,
16 July 2025
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“Pulsar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulsar. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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