binary pulsar
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Opened in 1963, Arecibo is a multipurpose facility that can function as a passive radio telescope for astronomy: It was used in the Nobel Prize–winning discovery of the first binary pulsar in 1974.
From Science Magazine • Sep. 26, 2017
Hulse and Taylor found their binary pulsar, PSR 1913+16, using the 305-meter Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico, currently the largest radio dish in existence.
From Scientific American • May 9, 2011
Their so-called binary pulsar allowed for the indirect confirmation of the existence of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space and time that emanate from the movement of massive bodies.
From Scientific American • May 9, 2011
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