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New page: '''PSR B1913+16''' (or J1915+1606) is a binary pulsar, or a pulsar in a binary star system. A binary pulsar consists of two stars orbiting around each other (around a common c...

'''PSR B1913+16''' (or J1915+1606) is a [[binary pulsar]], or a [[pulsar]] in a [[binary star system]]. A binary pulsar consists of two stars orbiting around each other (around a common center of mass based on the two stars).

This particular binary pulsar, PSR B1913+16 was discovered by [[Russell Alan Hulse]] and [[Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.]], of [[Princeton University]]. They were later awarded the 1993 [[Nobel Prize]] in Physics based on a claim in the abstract of their paper that this binary pulsar confirms the [[Theory of General Relativity]] due to its loss in energy over time, which Hulse and Taylor attributed to the radiation of [[gravitational waves]] under the [[Theory of General Relativity]].

==References==
*J. M. Weisberg and J. H. Taylor, ''[http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0407149 Relativistic Binary Pulsar B1913+16: Thirty Years of Observations and Analysis]'', submitted July 2004.

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