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Robert Lea

EXPLAINED: Mystery of dead stars glitching heartbeats could have a twisted solution - The Real Truth

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Scientists may have cracked the secret of the still-beating hearts of the universe's most extreme "dead stars," and the explanation is twisted. 

The team thinks an avalanche of quantum tornados causes this "glitching" in the spin of a class of neutron stars called pulsars when it becomes entangled with its neighbors like the arms of a series of cacti in close proximity, creating twisted and complex patterns.

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