The discussion revolves around the observation of curved space-time, particularly in relation to neutron stars and the implications for fundamental physics. Participants share links to articles and images, while clarifying the nature of the observations and representations involved.
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neutrino said: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 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.mendocino said: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