There are some strange objects lurking in our galaxy, and astronomers have just spied an extreme new candidate roughly 3,000 to 4,000 light-years away.
. When these neutron stars are highly magnetized and rapidly spinning, they become what we call a pulsar.
But the team used a new technique to find ZTF J1406+1222: they looked for visible light coming off the star being eaten. This is the first time a black widow pulsar has been found this way, and that's part of what makes the discovery so exciting.The other part, of course, is the mysterious system they stumbled upon.
One of the leading hypotheses is that, if this particular cluster drifted into the center of the Milky Way, then the gravity of our central"It's a complicated birth scenario,"."This system has probably been floating around in the Milky Way for longer than the Sun has been around."
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