Harvard Astronomers Study of Four Elusive Binary Systems

Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have measured the orbital parameters of four millisecond pulsars in the globular cluster 47 Tuc and modeled their possible formation and evolution paths. When a star with a mass of roughly ten solar masses finishes its life, it explodes as a supernova, leaving behind a neutron star as […]
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