neutron stars

On March 29, 2023 (Beijing Time) at 2 am, the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and 40 research institutions worldwide released their discoveries on the brightest Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB 221009A)…

Pulsars, the radiation pulses emitted by rotating neutron stars at very regular intervals, have very strong magnetic fields that funnel jets of particles out along the two magnetic poles to produce very powerful beams of light. When…