T he nearest millisecond pulsar PSR J0437-4715 has a radius of 11.4 kilometers and a mass 1.4 times that of the sun. These are the results of precision measurements made by a team of researchers ...
Using the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), astronomers from Italy and Spain have carried out high-temporal-resolution optical spectroscopic observations of a transitional millisecond pulsar ...
Professor Stappers added: "A pulsar-black hole system will be an important ... a neutron star to collapse is 2.2 times the mass of the Sun. The lightest black holes created by these stars are ...