Articles about Theory of general relativity

Einstein’s right again: Star obeys relativity as it whirls around Milky Way’s black hole

News Brief: A 26-year-long observational campaign provides clear evidence of the effect that general relativity has on the motion of… Read More

Europe’s Virgo detector picks up its first gravitational wave and nails down locale

Astronomers have detected their fourth gravitational wave from the merger of two black holes, but this one marks a new… Read More

LIGO gets lit up again by gravitational waves from another black hole crash

It looks as if gravitational-wave watchers are in for a bumpy, beautiful ride. Scientists using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory,… Read More

Hanford’s scientists finally spill gravitational-wave secrets – but they still can’t tell all

HANFORD, Wash. – Physicists here had to keep mum for nearly five months about the gravitational-wave breakthrough they helped make, but… Read More

Gravitational waves found! LIGO experiment watches two black holes smash together

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After more than a decade of looking, scientists say they’ve detected the gravitational waves given off when two… Read More

After gravitation-wave rumors, it’s getting close to go time for Advanced LIGO results

The scientists behind the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory are getting ready to reveal their latest findings, amid a flurry… Read More

LISA Pathfinder blasts off to blaze a trail for relativity’s biggest test

The LISA Pathfinder probe is heading for a vantage point a million miles from Earth to help look for gravitational waves and… Read More

Watch Einstein’s Theory of Relativity explained in a superfun 3-minute cartoon

Today is the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, and what better way to celebrate that iconic moment… Read More