Gamma-ray pulsations reveal extreme 3.2-millisecond pulsar 3,900 light-years away

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By analyzing the data from NASA's Fermi gamma-ray space telescope, Chinese astronomers have investigated a recently identified millisecond pulsar known as PSR J0435+3233. As a result, they found that the pulsar exhibits gamma-ray pulsations. The discovery was…

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