Potential Pulsar Near Galactic Center Could Probe General Relativity
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Columbia University and Breakthrough Listen identify an 8.19-millisecond pulsar candidate near the Milky Way’s Sagittarius A*, with follow-up observations underway; confirming it could enable precision tests of General Relativity around the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole.
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Researchers Announce Discovery of a Possible Pulsar in the Milky Way’s Center Columbia University
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