Curved space-time observed and confirmed

[uiulic]

Neutron Stars (black hole?) picture. maybe this not news.

Published in something like "physics review of celestial body".

I attached a pic, but it does not manage to show.

 

[cristo]

Huh? Are you proposing a specific paper which has interested you for discussion here? If so, could you please provide an exact reference?

 

[uiulic]

No, OBSERVATIONS only. I know nothing about physics. Just want to share the pic.

 

[cristo]

Oh right ok. Well perhaps you could link to the page you found this picture, or attach it here?

 

[uiulic]

The Chinsese one (hehe, I know you guys cannot understand, and maybe your computer will say there is undefined character in the link so that the link will be blocked).

http://www.6park.com/news/messages/64489.html


The link says the importance of the observation to some fundmental physics problems is very great, although it is not a surprising discovery.You can find the corresponding English news of course somewhere else, which I can't help.

 

[cristo]

Here's a few English versions of the article: from NASA http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2007/probe_matter.html and from the University of Michigan http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/print.php?htdocs/releases/plainstory.php?id=6003&html=

 

[uiulic]

Thanks for the English links, which are just what I had intended to show.

 

[neutrino]

uiulic, you do realize that it's a drawing/graphical representation, right? It's not an actual photo of Serpens-1. (Just making sure.)

Here's the PR from ESA: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMPJXE1P5F_index_0.html

 

[mendocino]

Einstein’s predicted distortion of space-time

uiulic, you do realize that it's a drawing/graphical representation, right? It's not an actual photo of Serpens-1. (Just making sure.)

Here's the PR from ESA: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMPJXE1P5F_index_0.html

But it did say the following in the above link:
>> Astronomers using XMM-Newton and Suzaku have seen Einstein’s predicted distortion of space-time

 

[JesseM]

But it did say the following in the above link:
>> Astronomers using XMM-Newton and Suzaku have seen Einstein’s predicted distortion of space-time

But they don't mean "seen" in the literal sense of being able to see it with your eyes in a photograph, they just mean they found a new form of observational evidence to support GR's predictions.