
A prediction made by Prof. Nir Shaviv from the Racah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University and Prof. Jeremy Heyl from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver Canada is reaffirmed through the measurement of polarized light from a neutron star. As a result of the very strong magnetic fields around neutron stars, the light rays can interact with the virtual electrons in the Vacuum. This interaction gives rise to very strange effects, the evidence of which was only recently seen for the first time.