Astronomers Get New Tools for Gravitational-Wave Detection

Teamwork between gamma-ray and radio astronomers has produced a breakthrough in finding natural cosmic tools needed to make the first direct detections of the long-elusive gravitational waves predicted by Albert Einstein nearly a century ago.

An orbiting gamma-ray telescope has pointed radio astronomers to specific locations in the sky where they can discover new millisecond pulsars.



Millisecond pulsars, rapidly-spinning superdense neutron stars, can serve as extremely precise and stab [...]

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