Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Zombie allusions: They just keep on coming™: generating gravitational waves

Zombie stars: A source of gravitational waves?

Scientists have witnessed motions that would be predicted by Einstein’s general relativity

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7:00AM, DECEMBER 28, 2015


GENEVA, Switzerland —  Pulsars are the dense cores of dead stars. But these zombies still communicate. They emit intense beams of radio waves with the regularity of a nearly perfect clock. A dancing pair of these cosmic radio beacons has just provided scientists with the best gauge that gravitational waves exist.

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