22 June 2018
Most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside Milky Way
...most precise test yet of Einstein’s general theory of relativity outside the Milky Way to find that when it comes...bent is one of the predictions of his theory of general relativity that was published a few years later. Hundreds of gravitational lenses...
09 August 2017
Stars orbiting Sgr A* hint at relativistic effects
... by comparing its measured orbit to predictions made using classical Newtonian gravity along with predictions from general relativity. Using a new analytic technique, the team were able to infer that the change in S2’s orbit due to relativistic...
12 December 2016
Gravitational waves proved Einstein right, now they may help prove him wrong too
...might break down at the edges of these phenological events after all. According to Einstein’s general theory of relativity, stationary black holes are completely determined by just three observable parameters: their mass, charge, and angular ...
November 2017
Delivering a revolutionary reduction in space launch costs
We are in the midst of a transformational era in the history of spaceflight. What was once an activity purely limited to governments and national space agencies is now experiencing a flourish of innovation led by entrepreneurial private sector ...
30 July 2018
Test of Einstein’s general relativity theory successful after 26 years
After 26 years of observation, ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile has revealed the effects predicted by Einstein’s general relativity theory on a star passing near the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way galaxy. This supermassive black ...
March 2016
Gravitational waves provide new window on the universe
...skilled mathematician who discovered the Kerr geometry, an exact solution to the Einstein field equation of general relativity. In general relativity, the end product of a black hole binary merger is a Kerr black hole, which is fully described by its...
