When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Slowly repeating bursts of intense radio waves from space have puzzled astronomers since they ...

The radio waves we see from pulsars have a mysterious glitch – but now we know the ingredients that must be present in the heart of these ultra-dense stellar corpses to give their emissions a hiccup.

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Mysterious flashes of radio waves from space might be caused by interstellar asteroids and comets crashing into neutron stars. Astronomers detected the first fast radio burst (FRB) in 2007, and ...