Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity

Astronomers Figure Out How Black Holes Can Blast Out Relativistic Jets of Material Across Light Years of Space

Thanks to a recent study by an international team of researchers, scientists now know why rapidly-spinning black holes blast out…

7 years ago

What is the Gravitational Microlensing Method?

The Gravitational Microlensing method relies on rare events (one star passing in front of another) to focus light and search…

7 years ago

LIGO Scientists who Detected Gravitational Waves Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics

For their immeasurable contributions to the discovery of gravitational waves, Caltech professors Kip S. Thorne and Barry C. Barish, and…

7 years ago

LIGO and Virgo Observatories Detect Black Holes Colliding

The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors recently made the first simultaneous detection of gravitational waves, ushering in a new…

7 years ago

Gravitational Waves will let us see Inside Stars as Supernovae Happen

A new study by an international team of astrophysicists has demonstrated that gravitational waves could be detected coming from exploding…

7 years ago

Cosmic Census Says There Could be 100 Million Black Holes in our Galaxy Alone

A new study by a team from UCI indicates that black hole mergers could be very common, which has implications…

7 years ago

Stars Orbiting Supermassive Black Hole Show Einstein was Right Again!

A team of European astronomers accurately measured the orbit of a star around the supermassive black hole at the center…

7 years ago

Astronomers Measure the Mass of a White Dwarf, and Prove Einstein was Right… Again

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of NASA astronomers has repeated an old experiment that was used to confirm…

7 years ago

Do Gravitational Waves Permanently Alter the Nature of Spacetime?

A new study by a team of researchers from Monash University argues that gravitational waves may permanently alter the fabric…

8 years ago

ESO Survey Shows Dark Matter to be Pretty “Smooth”

A new study produced by an international team of researchers shows that Dark Matter may be more smoothly distributed than…

8 years ago