An artist’s impression of an accreting X-ray millisecond pulsar. The flowing material from the companion star forms a disk around the neutron star which is truncated at the edge of the pulsar magnetosphere.
Credit: NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center / Dana Berry
Source: The Art of Recycling Pulsars (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)

An artist’s impression of an accreting X-ray millisecond pulsar. The flowing material from the companion star forms a disk around the neutron star which is truncated at the edge of the pulsar magnetosphere.

Credit: NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center / Dana Berry

Source: The Art of Recycling Pulsars (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)