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Mass of a white dwarf star directly measured for the first time

7 June 2017

Einstein said it couldn’t be done, but astrophysicists have used his prediction that gravity bends light to directly measure the mass of a dense stellar remnant

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Mass of a white dwarf star directly measured for the first time

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