Testing Einstein’s Work Using Observations of Fast Radio Bursts

Two recent papers use data from radio telescopes as a way of testing Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity

A depiction of the kind of radio telescopes used to record Fast Radio Bursts. Credit: Matt Bell (image).

Kaustubha Sen, in a paper published in November, has been testing Einstein’s theory using Fast Radio Bursts to see whether their behaviour fits with the weak equivalence…