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I'm trying to figure out how these are different from the binary pulsar PSR B1913+16 (other than they're white dwarfs and the binary pulsar is two neutron stars
by CanSpice 15y ago
I'm trying to figure out how these are different from the binary pulsar PSR B1913+16 (other than they're white dwarfs and the binary pulsar is two neutron stars). PSR B1913+16 is two neutron stars orbiting each other in a tight spiral, and their orbital decay corresponds with what Einstein's general relativity predicts. In fact, the discoverers of PSR B1913+16 (Hulse and Taylor) received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1993 for showing that this was the case.