{"id":218387,"date":"2025-07-21T05:05:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/newly-discovered-cosmic-unicorn-is-a-spinning-dead-star-that-defies-physics-we-have-a-real-mystery-on-our-hands"},"modified":"2025-07-21T05:05:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:05:48","slug":"newly-discovered-cosmic-unicorn-is-a-spinning-dead-star-that-defies-physics-we-have-a-real-mystery-on-our-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/newly-discovered-cosmic-unicorn-is-a-spinning-dead-star-that-defies-physics-we-have-a-real-mystery-on-our-hands","title":{"rendered":"Newly discovered \u2018cosmic unicorn\u2019 is a spinning dead star that defies physics: \u2018We have a real mystery on our hands\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newly-discovered-cosmic-unicorn-is-a-spinning-dead-star-that-defies-physics-we-have-a-real-mystery-on-our-hands.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That implies the radio wave blasts of CHIME J1634+44 are being generated in a way that is unique for this dead star.<\/p>\n<p>What is also weird about these pulses is the fact that they arrive in pairs, but only when the dead star in the CHIME J1634+44 binary has spun several times without emitting a burst.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe time between pulse pairs seems to follow a choreographed pattern,\u201d team member and ASTRON astronomer Harish Vedantham <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.astron.nl\/astronomers-uncover-white-dwarf-system-emitting-bright-radio-pulses-with-strange-rhythm\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.astron.nl\/astronomers-uncover-white-dwarf-system-emitting-bright-radio-pulses-with-strange-rhythm\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">said in a statement.<\/a> \u201cWe think the pattern holds crucial information about how the companion triggers the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/doomed-planets-of-dying-stars-radio-broadcasts.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/doomed-planets-of-dying-stars-radio-broadcasts.html\">white dwarf to emit radio waves<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That implies the radio wave blasts of CHIME J1634+44 are being generated in a way that is unique for this dead star. What is also weird about these pulses is the fact that they arrive in pairs, but only when the dead star in the CHIME J1634+44 binary has spun several times without emitting a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}