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Mysterious radio pulsar beats every 36 minutes ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Discovery of a 36-minute long-period transient ASKAP J142431.2-612611"
arXiv:2603.07857 · 2026-03-09 · CC BY · ⏱ 1 min · High Energy
Astronomers detected a cosmic radio beacon that signaled every 36 minutes — but only for eight days.
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Radio waves from space pulsed every 36 minutes for just a week, then vanished. Their beam was one hundred percent polarized and rotated like light in a crystal. Such invisible beacons might fill the entire Galaxy.

🎯 A 36-minute period is so vast that an ordinary pulsar would need longer than the age of the Universe to slow down that much.

Scientists
Enrico FermiPaul DiracSubrahmanyan ChandrasekharAlbert EinsteinBarry BarishKip Thorne
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pulsar neutron star
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Fermi–Dirac statisticsChandrasekhar limitquadrupole radiation formula
Original: arXiv:2603.07857 · CC BY · bridge42worlds