For fifteen years, astronomers trusted a particular pulsar to behave — catalogued as quiet, filed away as understood, a fixed point in the turning sky. Then it glitched, and glitched again, and glitched a third time, each sudden lurch in its rotation a reminder that cosmic stability is less a property of nature than a limit of our attention. The discovery invites a deeper humility: that the universe's silences may simply be waiting for a long enough ear.
Dormant pulsar suddenly exhibits three glitches in 15-year observation period
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