United KingdomAstronomers have potentially detected 'vacuum birefringence,' a quantum mechanical effect predicted by Werner Heisenberg nearly 90 years ago. Using data from NASA's IXPE satellite, the NICER X-ray telescope, and the Parkes radio telescope, researchers observed a magnetar named 1E 1547.0–5408. Their findings suggest that the extreme magnetic field of the magnetar caused light to refract in a way consistent with vacuum birefringence. This discovery could provide new insights into quantum mechanics and the behavior of light in intense electromagnetic environments. The research was published in the journal Nature.
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