Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
What is the Gravitational Microlensing Method?
The Gravitational Microlensing method relies on rare events (one star passing in front of another) to focus light and search…
LIGO Scientists who Detected Gravitational Waves Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics
For their immeasurable contributions to the discovery of gravitational waves, Caltech professors Kip S. Thorne and Barry C. Barish, and…
LIGO and Virgo Observatories Detect Black Holes Colliding
The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors recently made the first simultaneous detection of gravitational waves, ushering in a new…
Gravitational Waves will let us see Inside Stars as Supernovae Happen
A new study by an international team of astrophysicists has demonstrated that gravitational waves could be detected coming from exploding…
Cosmic Census Says There Could be 100 Million Black Holes in our Galaxy Alone
A new study by a team from UCI indicates that black hole mergers could be very common, which has implications…
Stars Orbiting Supermassive Black Hole Show Einstein was Right Again!
A team of European astronomers accurately measured the orbit of a star around the supermassive black hole at the center…
Astronomers Measure the Mass of a White Dwarf, and Prove Einstein was Right… Again
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of NASA astronomers has repeated an old experiment that was used to confirm…
Do Gravitational Waves Permanently Alter the Nature of Spacetime?
A new study by a team of researchers from Monash University argues that gravitational waves may permanently alter the fabric…
ESO Survey Shows Dark Matter to be Pretty “Smooth”
A new study produced by an international team of researchers shows that Dark Matter may be more smoothly distributed than…
How Strong is the Force of Gravity on Earth?
Earth's familiar gravity - which is 9.8 m/s², or 1 g - is both essential to life as we it,…