Gravity-bending find leads to Kepler meeting Einstein

Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 15:31 in Astronomy & Space

(Phys.org) —NASA's Kepler space telescope has witnessed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion star. The findings are among the first detections of this phenomenon—a result of Einstein's theory of general relativity—in binary, or double, star systems.

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