Pulsar punches hole in stellar disk
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 11:44 am
http://phys.org/news/2015-07-pulsar-hol ... -disk.html
A fast-moving pulsar appears to have punched a hole in a disk of gas around its companion star and launched a fragment of the disk outward at a speed of about 4 million miles per hour.
These observations show the clump moving away from B1259 at an average speed of about 7% of the speed of light. The data also indicate that the clump has been accelerated to 15% of the speed of light between the second and third observations.