Strange Black Hole Discovery Confirms Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
First Detection of Light From Behind a Black Hole Watching X-rays flung out into the universe by the supermassive black hole at the center of…
First Detection of Light From Behind a Black Hole Watching X-rays flung out into the universe by the supermassive black hole at the center of…
A Penn State scientist studying crystal structures has developed a new mathematical formula that may solve a decades-old problem in understanding spacetime, the fabric of…
Scientists from the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and The University of Western Australia (UWA) have set a world record for the most…
It’s one of the big cosmology debates: the universe is expanding, but how fast exactly? Two available measurements yield different results. Leiden physicist David Harvey…
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy LRG-3-817, also known as SDSS J090122.37+181432.3. The galaxy, its image distorted by the effects of gravitational…
Final Dance of Unequal Black Hole Partners Rochester Institute of Technology scientists perform first-ever simulation of large mass ratio black hole merger on Frontera. Solving…
What do Albert Einstein, the Global Positioning System (GPS), and a pair of stars 200,000 trillion miles from Earth have in common? The answer is…
A phenomenon of quantum mechanics known as superposition can impact timekeeping in high-precision clocks, according to a theoretical study from Dartmouth College, Saint Anselm College…
An international team of researchers led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has measured, with unprecedented accuracy, the gravitational redshift of the Sun,…
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what might the first horizon-scale image of a black hole tell us? A new paper by researchers…
Einstein’s description of gravity just got much harder to beat after astrophysicists put general relativity to a new test with black hole images. Einstein’s theory…
Over one hundred years ago, on May 29, 1919, astronomers observed a total solar eclipse in an ambitious effort to test Albert Einstein’s general theory…
Tiny diamond crystals could be used as an incredibly sensitive and small gravitational detector capable of measuring gravitational waves, suggests new UCL-led research. Predicted by…
In 2019, the MAGIC telescopes detected the first Gamma Ray Burst at very high energies. This was the most intense gamma-radiation ever obtained from such…
An international collaboration of scientists has recorded the most accurate confirmation to date for one of the cornerstones of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, ‘the…
Observations made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed for the first time that a star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center…
In another verification of the validity of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, published in Nature Photonics, scientists from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics and…
Gravitational wave ‘tones’ detected following the merger of two black holes confirm the decades-old ‘no-hair theory’ of black hole properties. For the first time, astrophysicists…