A Mysterious Light In Space Keeps Switching On and Off. Now, We Know Why.

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A Mysterious Light In Space Keeps Switching On and Off. Now, We Know Why.

Scientists have discovered the mysterious reason that a radiant object in our galaxy keeps switching on and off between high and low energy modes, meaning that it cycles between brighter and darker phases, reports a new study.  A massive observational 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. The results …