India, Oct. 21 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
Scientists have discovered that one of the brightest X-ray pulsars, Centaurus X-3 is gobbling up material through an accretion disk, which is rare for pulsars of its kind.
The study will not only have implications in developing better-informed models of the system, which is one of the most widely studied binary pulsars that has drawn the attention of scientists because of its intense brightness, but also lead to enhanced understanding of binary pulsars in general.
An X-ray binary pulsar consists of a pulsar- a highly magnetised neutron star, and a Sun-like star bound in a gravitational dance. A neutron star is a celestial body with the mass of our sun crunched into a ball th...