Overview
- The candidate, dubbed BLPSR, was identified in one of the most sensitive radio searches of the Milky Way’s center.
- The study appears in The Astrophysical Journal and is led by Karen I. Perez of Columbia University and the SETI Institute.
- Follow-up observations and detailed timing analyses are in progress, with confirmation still pending.
- A verified pulsar near the supermassive black hole would enable precision tests of General Relativity using pulse arrival-time anomalies.
- The team cautions that further tests are required, and the full observations have been made publicly available for community analysis.