The accelerating expansion of the Universe, first observed in 1998, remains one of the most profound mysteries in modern ...

On 25 November 1915, Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity at the Prussian Academy of Sciences. This theory is still considered to be the most important idea in modern physics.

Albert Einstein had described the special theory ... After thinking about the problems for 10 years, he published the general theory of relativity. In it, he suggested that gravity is not a ...

Einstein’s general theory of relativity can be summed up in just 12 words: “Space-time tells matter how to move; matter tells space-time how to curve”. But this short description from the ...

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity—which explains gravity as the product of the distortion of space and time—may not be universally applicable. This is the conclusion of physicists ...

Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity is one of the towering achievements of 20th-century physics. In our introduction to general relativity, we explain how this theory developed ...

A Precision Test of General Relativity. While Einstein’s famous theory of general relativity accurately describes the motion of celestial bodies in our solar system, less is kno ...

Research on Gravity in Line With Einstein's Theory of General Relativity Nov. 20, 2024 — Researchers used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to map how nearly 6 million galaxies cluster ...

Like Max Planck, Albert Einstein first studied mathematics because he was told that everything interesting in physics had already been discovered. But in 1905, Einstein, a young cleark at the ...

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 universality of free fall’ ...

In the first study of its kind at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the CMS collaboration has tested whether top quarks adhere ...

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