Astronomers have discovered an exotic double object, the most massive neutron star confirmed so far closely orbited by a white dwarf star, which confirms Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.
An international team, using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope, along with radio telescopes around the world, have found a tiny, but unusually heavy neutron star that spins 25 times each second, orbited every two and a half hours by a white dwarf star. The neutron star is a pulsar that is giving off radio waves that can be picked up on Earth by radio telescopes.
By: Jenny Winder, SEN.com, Edited by: Kadhim Shubber
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/29/general-relativity-confirmation
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