Learn how researchers used Einstein’s theory of general relativity to create the most accurate simulations to date.

Albert Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to theoretical physics and his discovery of ...

Scientists detect a 20-day wobble from a star-shredding black hole, confirming spacetime twisting predicted by Einstein.

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An artist's impression depicts the accretion disc surrounding a black hole, in which the inner region of the disc wobbles. In ...

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In 1919, British astronomers Arthur Eddington and Frank Dyson organised an expedition to Príncipe, a forested fleck of land ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

This temporal lag is a direct consequence of Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. The rule is simple: the weaker ...

In 1919, a total solar eclipse offered the only chance to test Albert Einstein's radical new theory of gravity, General ...

Black holes are notoriously difficult to spot unless they are active, and one type of activity is the destruction of a star, ...

A remarkably clean gravitational-wave detection has confirmed long-standing predictions about black holes, including ...