Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Critical For GPS, Seen In Distant Stars

Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Critical For GPS, Seen In Distant Stars

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Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 23, 2020

What do Albert Einstein, the Global Positioning System (GPS), and a pair of stars 200,000 trillion miles from Earth have in common? The answer is an effect from Einstein's General Theory of Relativity called the "gravitational redshift," where light is shifted to redder colors because of gravity. Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered the phenomenon in two star

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