Astrophysicists Observe Star Dragging Space-Time
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Astrophysicists Observe Star Dragging Space-Time

Just over a century ago, Einstein determined that the gravity of massive objects could warp spacetime. Now, astronomers tracing a quirky pair of stars for 20 years using the Parkes radio telescope have proven him right again. Astronomers have observed this effect for the first time in an unusual star system known as PSR J1141-6545 that was discovered around 10,000 light-years away in the constellation of Musca aka The Fly in 2001. The effect is 100 million times more powerful than anything identified before. This time astronomers are witnessing a spinning star at the center of the system dragging the very fabric of spacetime with it.

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