Gizmodo

A team of scientists found a compact object 40,000 light-years from Earth that is either a very massive neutron star or an itsy-bitsy black hole, but they’re not sure which.

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A rapidly spinning dead star’s wacky fluctuations in brightness are due to the extreme environment surrounding the object, according to a team of astronomers who observed it.

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Tech Insider
An illustration shows a neurton star emiting beams of energy, while orange magnetic field lines run from one of its poles to the next.
An artist's impression of a magnetar, a dying neutron star. Scientists think they've found a pulsating star that defies the physics of stars.