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Jun 6, 2024

“Extraordinary” Slow-Spinning Neutron Star Shakes Astrophysics

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Most collapsed stars fully rotate in seconds. This one takes almost an hour.

Australian scientists from the University of Sydney and Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, have detected what is likely a neutron star spinning slower than any other ever measured.

No other radio-emitting neutron star, out of the more than 3,000 discovered so far, has been discovered rotating so slowly. The results are published today (June 5) in Nature Astronomy.

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