Astronomers Caught a Spacetime Whirlpool Around a Black Hole as First Predicted by Einstein. “This is a Real Gift for Physicists”
An artist’s impression depicts the accretion disk surrounding a black hole, in which the inner region of the…
Scientists Finally Know the Exact Time on Mars With A Bit of Help From Einstein
Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. On Mars, clocks run slightly faster. Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology…
Chinese physicists prove Einstein wrong and put century-old debate to an end
For the first time, scientists in China have faithfully recreated a thought experiment proposed by Albert Einstein nearly…
Grok Says Elon Musk Is Smarter Than Einstein and More Fit Than LeBron James
Elon Musk has been pretty open about the fact that he’s been working to “fix” Grok anytime the…
Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen-ning Yang dies, aged 103
Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Chen-ning Yang, died in Beijing on Saturday at the age of 103. Yang died…
From black holes to wormholes – welcome to the warped side of the Universe – The Irish Times
We live in a Universe that is, in parts, distinctly warped. It’s a feature that has intrigued Prof…
Gravitational waves help scientists measure newborn black hole’s ‘kick’
The historic finding comes about a decade after the first detection of gravitational waves performed by a famous…
Black hole collision confirms decades-old predictions by Einstein and Hawking
Astronomers have detected a collision between two black holes in unprecedented detail, offering the clearest view yet into…
Quantum computers the key to elusive ‘Theory of Everything’
During the first two decades of the 20th century, European science experienced a revolution. Albert Einstein’s Theory of…
Colliding black holes ‘ringing’ across space and time prove Hawking, Einstein theories right
Once again, it turns out that renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking was right. Oh, and Albert Einstein, too.…
How were black holes discovered? 240-year-old concept hypothesised ‘dark stars’ which turned out to be…
Black holes weren’t always known by this name. In fact, the name wasn’t coined until 1967, and the…
45 years ago, Carl Sagan beautifully explained the fourth dimension with just an apple.
Most adults periodically examine their lives to try to figure out where they can save money. It might…