Physicist bends light with gravity, improves remote sensing
Enbang Li, a senior lecturer at the University of Wollongong’s School of Physics, has developed a simple yet…
Two-sun planets keep disappearing: Here’s why scientists point to Einstein |
The idea of a planet orbiting two suns has long captured both scientific curiosity and public imagination. Popularised…
Light can travel for billions of years yet experience no time
A photon emitted from a star a billion light-years away arrives at a telescope having experienced no time…
Bizarre Quantum Experiment Just Proved Atoms Can Exist In Two Places At Once
Yogesh Sridhar and Dr Sean Hodgman (right) working on their quantum experiment. Credit: Nic Vevers/ANU You can say…
Distance in space is an illusion
Andromeda sounds far away because 2.5 million light-years sounds far away. It lands with authority. It feels exact.…
Melissa Fumero Joins CBS Dramedy ‘Einstein’ With Matthew Gray Gubler
Melissa Fumero has joined the CBS original dramedy “Einstein.” The “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “Grosse Pointe Garden Society” alum…
Wilczek’s Multiverse | Revisiting the peaks of Nobel laureate Chen-ning Yang’s remarkable career
In the latest instalment of his exclusive series for the South China Morning Post, American theoretical physicist and…
Einstein–Rosen bridges are not wormholes but quantum links between opposite directions of time
In an effort to bring together the domains of gravity and quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen…
Black holes are twisting the universe: New discovery shows Einstein was right |
Some discoveries arrive quietly, without fireworks or clean endings. Astronomers were watching a distant flare from a galaxy…
Could time travel actually be possible? One researcher thinks so
One Vanderbilt University researcher thinks time travel might not just be for the movies. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons). Time…
Astronomers discover spacetime drag around a supermassive black hole — as predicted by Einstein
A star’s fatal brush with a supermassive black hole can light up a quiet galaxy. When gravity shreds…
New high-res black hole images challenge Einstein’s theory of relativity
A black hole can feel like the most distant and unreal object you could ever think about, yet…