The fastest and heaviest known galactic neutron star (PSR J0952-0607)
A dense, collapsed star spinning 707 times per second—making it one of the fastest spinning neutron stars in the Milky Way galaxy—has shredded and consumed nearly the entire mass of its stellar companion and, in the process, grown into the heaviest neutron star observed to date. Read more at https://phys.org/news/2022-07-heavies...
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
This 2014 NASA video explains black widow pulsars and how astronomers discovered one called PSR J1311−3430, the first of its kind discovered solely through gamma-ray observations.
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