Tuesday, 12 July 2016

Pulsars could probe black hole horizons



The first antenna of MeerKAT,
a SKA precursor in South Africa.
[Image Source.]
It�s hard to see black holes � after all, their defining feature is that they swallow light. But it�s also hard to discourage scientists from trying to shed light on mysteries. In a recent paper, a group of researchers from Long Island University and Virginia Tech have proposed a new way to probe the near-horizon


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