Detects a spinning crystal hidden with the fastest speed

The asteroid PSR j1748-2446ad is located in the constellation Sagittarius has become a neutron star that rotates itself at the fastest speed ever observed.

Researchers at McGill University in Montreal (Canada), led by astronomer Jason Hessels, discovered that the asteroid turned at 716 cycles (716 hertz) in a second, breaking the previous record with 642 revolutions. in a second held since 1982.

So far astronomers believe that 700 revolutions in a second is an insurmountable limit.

Metaphysics PSR J1748-2446ad is in the star cluster named Terzan 5, nearly 28,000 light years from Earth. The team of researchers has discovered the crystal because of the telescope Robert C. Byrd located at the National Science Agency in Green Bank (USA).

Metaphors are stars that turn around themselves and emit beams of radio waves or light at each spin, similar to the lighthouse. These are the remainder of a very large star turning into a supernova in an explosion before shutting down. They are so dense that people estimate the weight of a part with a teaspoon equivalent to billions of tons.

British astronomers discovered the hidden crystals in 1967, this discovery gave one of them the Nobel Prize. How the pulsars emit beams of electromagnetic radiation remains a mystery.

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