When pulsars hit the spin cycle
- 2016
- 3m
Pulsars are dead stars that emit intense beams of radio waves that sweep through space with the regularity of a clock. That's strange enough but what's even stranger, they sometimes speed up... Read allPulsars are dead stars that emit intense beams of radio waves that sweep through space with the regularity of a clock. That's strange enough but what's even stranger, they sometimes speed up - in a universe where the norm is for everything to slow down. What could possibly give t... Read allPulsars are dead stars that emit intense beams of radio waves that sweep through space with the regularity of a clock. That's strange enough but what's even stranger, they sometimes speed up - in a universe where the norm is for everything to slow down. What could possibly give them the extra energy? S Kumar Mallavarapu, PhD '16, explains.