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CTOnews.com February 6 news, According to CCTV news report, Known as "China Sky Eye" 500-meter aperture spherical radio telescope (FAST), Has discovered more than 740 pulsars.

Jiang Peng, chief engineer of FAST, said that so far, the total number of pulsars discovered by FAST has reached more than 740. As the number of pulsar discoveries continues to increase, scientists can look for evidence of gravitational waves in the future through pulsar test arrays, or establish autonomous and controllable time reference systems through pulsar timing.

Jiang Peng said: "These more than 700 (pulsars), it just provides you with a condition. And if you have this discovery capability, you might be able to discover the exotic pulsars that we're looking for. What we are looking forward to is the discovery of a special kind of pulsar, such as a binary system paired with a black hole, so that we can test Einstein's theory of relativity under more extreme gravitational field conditions. "

CTOnews.com learned that the 500-meter aperture spherical radio telescope (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope) was built using the pit in Guizhou karst area as the telescope site. It was conceived by Chinese astronomer Nan Rendong in 1994 and lasted 22 years. It was completed and put into use on September 25, 2016. It is currently the single-aperture radio telescope with the largest aperture and highest sensitivity in the world. It has 30 standard football fields and a large receiving area.

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