... – a type of neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field – or an active nucleus in the host galaxy. In this situation jets of material emitted from the region surrounding a supermassive black hole would produce these energetic radio bursts...
...of a single object. "This neutron star wears two different hats," said Walid Majid, astrophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. "Sometimes it's a pulsar. Sometimes it's a magnetar. This object may tell us something about...
... observations will allow scientists to understand how material accretes around black holes, as well as how extremely fast jets of gas that blast out from them are formed. Other goals include testing Einstein’s theory of general...
... gap between the rings and Saturn would be like," said Cassini Project Manager Earl Maize of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "I am delighted to report that Cassini shot through the gap just as we planned and...