Citizen Scientists Discover New Pulsar With Einstein@Home

Saturday, August 14, 2010 - 23:28 in Physics & Chemistry

You must be quite familiar with what happens when you toss a pebble into a pond. You might describe the simple event as a massive rotating object splashing into a deformable fluid. Or, you might… not. However, astronomical bodies are like these pebbles sloshing around in a deformable fluid, called space-time, and this interaction, too, can produce those expected waves extending out from where the pebble drops. read more

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