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human
Why do pulsars/quasars emit energy bursts at their poles? Why not at their equators where the greater rotational energy would require less effort to escape; like our rockets do?
gpt
Think you are confusing magnetic poles with rotational poles.

Pulsars emit radiation from the axis of their magnetic field not from their rotational axis. In fact, the mechanism which generates the em radiation in pulsars requires these two axes to not be aligned.