07 December 2018
Misplaced satellites provide highest accuracy yet of Einstein's theory
... helped scientists achieve the most accurate measurement ever made of gravitational redshift; a key element of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, that describes how time passes more slowly when close to a massive object. Einstein theorised that...
22 June 2018
Most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside Milky Way
... was anticipated by Einstein in 1912, and the degree to which the light is bent is one of the predictions of his theory of general relativity that was published a few years later. Hundreds of gravitational lenses are currently known and about half...
12 December 2016
Gravitational waves proved Einstein right, now they may help prove him wrong too
...holes are indeed ‘hairy’ and therefore Einsteins theory of general relativity 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...
09 August 2017
Stars orbiting Sgr A* hint at relativistic effects
... clearly. It will also allow astronomers to look for deviations from general relativity that in the process, might reveal new physics. “This opens up an avenue for more theory and experiments in this sector of science,” said co-author Vladimir Karas...
April 2019
LISA Pathfinder – paving the way for future studies of the gravitational universe
... binaries or other astrophysical objects. Albert Einstein postulated the existence of gravitational waves from his theory of general relativity (1915). Ground-based detectors can only measure the high frequency band of gravitational waves. A first...
30 July 2018
Test of Einstein’s general relativity theory successful after 26 years
... 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... corresponded to those predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
