Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) and by analyzing archival Arecibo Observatory data, ...

They concluded that this was due to the gravitational pull of a small companion planet, orbiting the pulsar in a binary system. The pulsar and its planet are part of the Milky Way’s plane of stars and ...

In essence, the gravitationally bound binary system is the vehicle, and the smaller companion star is the propellant. The spider pulsar generates thrust by expelling propellant out of the ...