{"id":3926096,"date":"2026-05-22T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/using-pulsars-as-ultra-precise-gravitational-probes-to-weigh-neighboring-galaxies\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T12:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:00:21","slug":"using-pulsars-as-ultra-precise-gravitational-probes-to-weigh-neighboring-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/using-pulsars-as-ultra-precise-gravitational-probes-to-weigh-neighboring-galaxies\/","title":{"rendered":"Using pulsars as ultra-precise gravitational probes to &#8216;weigh&#8217; neighboring galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, have identified a promising new method for measuring the mass of galaxies orbiting the Milky Way by using pulsars, some of the universe&#8217;s most precise natural clocks, to detect tiny gravitational effects across our galaxy.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-05-pulsars-ultra-precise-gravitational-probes.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, have identified a promising new method for measuring the mass of galaxies orbiting the Milky Way by using pulsars, some of the universe&#8217;s most precise natural clocks, to detect tiny gravitational effects across our galaxy. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}