Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar
Púlsar binario de Hulse-Taylor y prueba indirecta de las ondas gravitacionales
- Date
- 1974-1979 · confidence high
- Place
- Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico
- Credited to
- Russell Hulse, Joseph Taylor
- People
- 👤 Russell Hulse1950–
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
The orbit of pulsar PSR B1913+16 shrinks exactly at the rate predicted by the emission of gravitational waves in general relativity.
Nobel Prize in Physics 1993.
What it led to
- Confidence in the existence of gravitational waves
- The LIGO project
- Tests of strong-field gravity