Einstein’s handwritten encyclopedia entry could fetch $200,000

Einstein proposed and published his theories of special and general relativity in 1905 and 1915. The concepts are monumental ...

M87 Galaxy Black Hole Reveals Mysterious Halo: A New Challenge to General Relativity or a Unique Manifestation of Spacetime Distortion?

As a massive black hole located 55 million light-years from Earth, the black hole at the center of M87 has a mass equivalent ...

A Study Appears to Stunningly Contradict Newton and Einstein's Theory of Gravity

Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, an immensely important update to Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation, is currently ...

Measuring the Unruh effect: Proposed approach could bridge gap between general relativity and quantum mechanics

Researchers at Hiroshima University have developed a realistic, highly sensitive method to detect the Unruh effect—a ...

Black hole collision confirms decades-old predictions by Einstein and Hawking

Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made ...
Astronomy

Scientists seek to discover what came before the Big Bang

A research team proposes utilizing numerical relativity, a computational technique for solving Einstein's equations in high-gravity environments, to investigate the universe's origin. The approach ...
Nature

Rainer Weiss obituary: Nobel laureate who pioneered the technique that detected gravitational waves

Physicist who spearheaded the construction of the LIGO observatory to detect Einstein’s predicted ripples in space-time ...
The Advocate

Historical society visit LIGO

Zachary Yarbrough, an LSU graduate student, explained the features of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory's control room to members of the Edward Livingston Historical Association ...