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Loading contentAn old pulsar spun up to hundreds of rotations per second by accreting matter from a companion star — 'recycled' to spin periods of only a few milliseconds. Their extraordinary rotational stability makes them the most precise clocks known and the basis of pulsar-timing arrays searching for low-frequency gravitational waves.
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