first binary pulsar PSR B1913+16

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PSR B1913+16 is a landmark binary pulsar system whose precisely measured orbital decay provided the first strong indirect evidence for the existence of gravitational waves, leading to a Nobel Prize in Physics.


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Arecibo Observatory discovered first binary pulsar PSR B1913+16