Showing posts with label Einstein at Home Project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Einstein at Home Project. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Home computers of boffins find rare star


The discoverers, from the US and Germany found the object with the help of the Einstein@Home project

London:

By putting their home computers to work when they would otherwise be idle, three "citizen scientists" have discovered a rare astronomical object. The unusual find is called a "disrupted binary pulsar"; these pulsars can be created when a massive star collapses.