The first part of your question — how stellar objects reach millisecond spin periods — involves two concepts. First, the object needs to be small, since no material can move faster than the speed of ...
The formation of star clusters and galaxies is due to fluctuations in the density of cosmic matter, and hence gravity’s pull. The fact that all these objects are spinning is due to the conservation of ...
An international team of astronomers has uncovered a new class of radio-emitting celestial object that could redefine what we know about long-period radio transients. In a study published on arXiv, ...
Shrink the Star Trek tractor beam down to a microscopic scale, add the ability to twirl the objects trapped in its path, and you’d have a system much like the one described in the 4 May issue of the ...
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In a first, an astronomer may have witnessed a comet stop its spin—then reverse its rotation
Comets are unpredictable objects. Scientists struggle to predict the paths and brightnesses of these icy space rocks. Now, an astronomer has caught something especially strange: a comet possibly ...
Shrink the Star Trek tractor beam down to a microscopic scale, add the ability to twirl the objects trapped in its path, and you'd have a system much like the one described in the 4 May issue of the ...
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