By | November 30, 2016 12:00pm ET
The effect, called vacuum birefringence, comes from the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED) and predicts that strong magnetic fields could polarize light in a vacuum. A new study of neutron star RX J1856.5-3754 using ESO’s Very Large Telescope may have presented evidence of the phenomenon. [Full Story]
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