A Mysterious Light In #Space Keeps Switching On and Off. Now, We Know Why.
A dozen of the world’s best #telescopes were enlisted to explain the behavior of object #J1023 that has puzzled scientists for more than a decade.The campaign involving 12 telescopes has revealed that these cosmic switches are flipped by energetic interactions between a jet and a disk shaped by a #pulsar, a type of pulsing dead #star. https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg5dw8/a-mysterious-light-in-space-keeps-switching-on-and-off-now-we-know-why