Double pulsar (IMAGE)

University of East Anglia

Double pulsar

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Researchers have conducted a 16-year long experiment to challenge Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The international team looked to the stars - a pair of extreme stars called pulsars to be precise – through seven radio telescopes across the globe.

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Mark Myers/OzGrav-Swinburne, licence CC BY-NC-ND, Created with UniverseSandbox

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