admin It has been around 65 years since we lost Albert Einstein but his theories keep on proving him right and keep his work alive.
Scientists, once again, confirmed the Theory of General Relativity proposed by Einstein in 1915. Scientists were observing a wobbling of a pulsar 25,000 light-years from us. And this work took the astronomers over 14 years of observing the spinning neutron star PSR J1906+0746.
In the leadership of Gregory Desvignes from the Max Planck Institute for radio astronomy in Bonn, Germany, the astronomers published results of this study in the September 6 issue of the journal ‘Science’. The result of this enormous work might be very helpful in finding out about these so-called binary pulsars in our galaxy.
Adam Ingram, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford who studied the black hole said, “The new observation is much more direct than mine. I can only infer that something is precessing in black hole systems, whereas the precision radio observations presented here leave little room for ambiguity.”
Ingrid Stairs, the study co-author, from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, said in a statement, “Pulsars can provide tests of gravity that cannot be done in any other way. This is one more beautiful example of such a test.” Theory of General Relativity describes how matter and energy make the fabric of space-time to create the force of gravity. It was through this theory that we came to know what will happen if two pulsars orbit about themselves and he was right when he proved that the consequence of such an observation will be a wobbling orbit, like a slow-spinning top.
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