Comments on: Scientists discover in archival data a slowly pulsing object that has been beating since 1988 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/scientists-discover-in-archival-data-a-slowly-pulsing-object-that-has-been-beating-since-1988/ Fri, 21 Jul 2023 16:48:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: David Ross https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/scientists-discover-in-archival-data-a-slowly-pulsing-object-that-has-been-beating-since-1988/#comment-1420140 Fri, 21 Jul 2023 16:48:20 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=96816#comment-1420140 It took a day but TallDave likely called it. I assume a few billion years of magnetism would slow it down some. Also possible are kilonovae if this ball of neutrons was pulling matter from a now-destroyed companion. A few of those big explosions should slow it down some more.

]]> By: TallDave https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/scientists-discover-in-archival-data-a-slowly-pulsing-object-that-has-been-beating-since-1988/#comment-1420134 Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:46:34 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=96816#comment-1420134 possibly the result of coincidentally spin-cancelling collisions (upside down with reference to each other)

angular momentum is conserved in the vast majority of cases

but every once in a while…

or perhaps magnetic drag from a nearby massive object

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]]> By: Jerry Greenwood https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/scientists-discover-in-archival-data-a-slowly-pulsing-object-that-has-been-beating-since-1988/#comment-1420031 Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:29:35 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=96816#comment-1420031 Robert

The Sentinel?

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