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...
February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... body of water. It drove Europeans to discover the antibiotic penicillin and save millions of lives; to discover the theory of general relativity; to send the first space probe to perform a detailed study of a comet, dispatch a lander to its surface...
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.
01 February 2017
Researchers find substantial observational evidence for a holographic Universe
...Holography is a huge leap forward in the way we think about the structure and creation of the universe. Einstein’s theory of general relativity explains almost everything large scale in the universe very well, but starts to unravel when examining its...
September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
... Gravitational radiation has recently been detected from merging stellar-mass black holes, validating Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, although the origin of such systems remains a matter of some debate. A binary future Binary stars are...
05 December 2018
New theory unifies dark matter with dark energy
.... 'Previous approaches to combining dark energy and dark matter have attempted to modify Einstein's theory of general relativity, which has turned out to be incredibly challenging. This new approach takes two old ideas that are ...
