Proposed NASA Mission Could Explore Twisted Space Around Black Holes
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 - 13:14
in Astronomy & Space
A new NASA mission could discover the shape of space that has been distorted by a spinning black hole's crushing gravity, and explore the structure and effects of the formidable magnetic field around magnetars, dead stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's.
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