Blinking radio pulses from space hint at a cosmic object that ‘shouldn’t exist’
- Written by Manisha Caleb, Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics, University of Sydney

When some of the biggest stars reach the end of their lives, they explode in spectacular supernovas and leave behind incredibly dense cores called neutron stars. Some of these remnants emit powerful radio beams from their magnetic poles.
As the star spins, these beams sweep past Earth and...