{"id":198023,"date":"2024-10-20T20:28:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T01:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/astronomers-witness-a-star-dragging-space-time-around-with-it"},"modified":"2024-10-20T20:28:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T01:28:10","slug":"astronomers-witness-a-star-dragging-space-time-around-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/astronomers-witness-a-star-dragging-space-time-around-with-it","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Witness A Star Dragging Space-Time Around With It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GOb3MCAg9zM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A spinning white dwarf drags space-time around it 100 million times more powerfully than Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have recently provided compelling evidence of a star dragging space-time, showcasing one of Einstein\u2019s lesser-known predictions. This phenomenon, known as \u201cframe-dragging,\u201d describes how a spinning object distorts the very fabric of space-time around it. While this effect is nearly imperceptible in everyday life, even on a planetary scale, certain cosmic conditions make it much more noticeable. A study published in Science details these observations using a radio telescope to study a rare pair of compact stars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frame-Dragging and Einstein\u2019s Predictions<\/strong> Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity is fundamental to our understanding of gravity. It suggests that massive objects bend space-time, affecting the motion of nearby objects. Additionally, when these massive bodies spin, they twist space-time around them. Detecting frame-dragging on Earth is extremely challenging, requiring highly sensitive instruments like the Gravity Probe B, a satellite that measures minute changes in angular velocity. But in the cosmos, certain celestial objects can serve as natural laboratories to observe this effect with greater clarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spinning white dwarf drags space-time around it 100 million times more powerfully than Earth. Astronomers have recently provided compelling evidence of a star dragging space-time, showcasing one of Einstein\u2019s lesser-known predictions. This phenomenon, known as \u201cframe-dragging,\u201d describes how a spinning object distorts the very fabric of space-time around it. While this effect is nearly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}