Ohhhh, this is neat!
Tarzan 5 also harbours the most pulsars in any globular cluster, nearly 50 of them.
Most of these are millisecond pulsars so they’ve been spun up through accretion processes in binary systems, reflecting the dynamic environment inside T5.
X-rays tell us there should be more!
CosmicRami 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
The true nature of Terzan 5
Observations from Webb and Hubble have revealed that Terzan 5 is not a true globular cluster. Instead, it is something much odder and rarer.
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