Disappearance of a Cosmic Spinning Top
Amsterdam, The Netherlands (SPX) Jan 09, 2015 - Scientists measured the space-time warp in the gravity of a binary star and determined the mass of a neutron star - just before it disappeared. "Our result is important because weighing stars while they freely float through space is exceedingly difficult," said Joeri van Leeuwen, an astrophysicist at The Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy ASTRON, and University of Amsterdam, The Net ... more
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