What Causes the Radio Pulses of a Pulsar

question 51

Multiple Choice

What causes the radio pulses of a pulsar?

• A) The vibration of the neutron star.
• B) As the neutron star spins, beams of radio radiation sweep through space. If one of the beams crosses the Earth, we observe a pulse.
• C) The neutron star undergoes periodic explosions of nuclear fusion that generate radio pulses.
• D) The neutron star's orbiting companion periodically eclipses the radio waves that the neutron star emits.
• E) A black hole near the neutron star absorbs energy and re-emits it as radio waves.

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