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Albert Einstein is famous for his contributions to physics, even predicting this strange and fascinating gravitational effect ...

Spacetime itself would also need to be “quantized,” or broken down into constituent parts. This is what the notorious string theory attempts to do, as does loop quantum gravity, currently considered a ...

The fabric of space and time is not exempt from the effects of gravity. Plop in a mass and space-time curves around it, not dissimilar to what happens when you put a bowling ball on a trampoline. This ...

Learn more about the images advanced telescopes could take of black holes and how they could back up Einstein’s general ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has seemingly confirmed Einstein's general relativity by exhibiting gravitational lensing as it neared the Sun. However, the observed light bending exceeded predictions by ...

In the 1900s, Albert Einstein unified the concepts of space and time, giving us a useful new way to picture the universe. At the start of the 20th century, physicists had a problem: The speed of light ...

Jury’s still out on the “frame-dragging” business. That’s according to this news report from an academic conference yesterday: After half a century, seven cancellations and $700 million, a mission to ...

The geometry of spacetime forms the very foundation of modern gravitational theory, where the elegant interplay between curvature and matter is described by Einstein’s field equations. In this ...