18 January 2021
New study looks at how to harness energy from a black hole
... like the stuff of science fiction, but it is in fact one of Einstein’s more fanciful-sounding predictions from his theory of General Relativity. Over the years, some of the greatest minds of physics such as Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose have...
July 2017
Hunting for neutrinos in the ice of Antarctica
... in the medium. As light ‘slows-down’ when it is not in a vacuum this effect happens without violating the theory of General Relativity and can be interpreted as the equivalent to a supersonic boom in air. In order to detect this Cherenkov radiation...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... Experiment) will together provide information on Mercury’s interior structure while also testing Einstein’s theory of General Relativity (GR) to an unprecedented level of accuracy. MERTIS (Mercury Radiometer and Thermal Imaging Spectrometer) will...
15 March 2018
A shining light in physics is lost
...’t be right, nonetheless, this work prompted a very important line of research - the need to unify quantum theory with general relativity - a Herculean task that many scientists are still trying to consolidate today. Despite the difficulties he faced...
18 June 2021
The spin of the Milky Way's galactic bar has slowed by a quarter, say researchers
... Newtonian dynamics (MOND) reject the idea of dark matter, instead seeking to explain discrepancies by tweaking Einstein's theory of general relativity. As MOND would not account for dark matter in the halo, it would predict no, or significantly too...
03 April 2017
Milky Way black hole search begins
... fast jets of gas that blast out from them are formed. Other goals include testing Einstein’s theory of general relativity which predicts a roughly circular “shadow” around the black hole. Simulated images of the shadow of a black hole...
