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Taking the pulse of a neutron star for almost five decades finds nearly cyclic spin changes on long time-scales

Posted on August 20, 2021 by Amar Deo Chandra

The X-ray binary system Vela X-1 consists of a neutron star (which contains as much mass as our Sun (~1030 kg) but is very compact and has size of a small city having radius of ~10 km or so) and … Continue reading →

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