Pulsar glitch: How physicists are making sense of a cosmic mystery | Explained
In 1967, astronomers at Cambridge discovered pulsars, super-dense objects formed from collapsed stars. Their origin was unknown until scientists proposed that they were rotating neutron stars, emitting radio signals from their poles. In 1969, a glitch in the pulsar PSR 0833-45 was observed, which remains unexplained 44 years later. Theories…
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