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pulsars

In pulsar: Rotation
…one was reported: known as J1748−2446ad, it has a period of 1.396 milliseconds, which corresponds to a spin rate of 716 times per second. These spin rates are close to the theoretical limit for a pulsar because a neutron star rotating only about four times faster would fly apart as…
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