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Astronomers are Hoping the Event Horizon Telescope saw Pulsars Near the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole


The Event Horizon Telescope is a collection of radio telescopes across the globe that simultaneously gathered data about the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, acting as a single telescope the size of planet Earth. This revealed the galaxy's heart in unprecedented detail, helping to confirm the black hole's event horizon and prove some of Einstein's predictions about General Relativity. But if those observations happened to contain any signals from pulsars in the area, it would allow for even more precise measurements, as if there were atomic clocks orbiting Sgr A*.

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