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Astronomers have discovered a new millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster GLIMPSE-C01. According to the results of the study, published on the arXiv preprint server, this is the first such object in this cluster.

A pulsar is a rotating neutron star with intense magnetic fields that emits symmetric beams of narrowly directed electromagnetic radiation like a lighthouse. The fastest spinning pulsars with rotation periods of less than 30 milliseconds are known as millisecond pulsars (MSPs). Astronomers suggest that they form in double systems when the initially more massive component transforms into a neutron star, which is then spun up by the accretion of secondary star matter.

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