More than a century after Albert Einstein first transformed our understanding of gravity, his general theory of relativity ...

Einstein’s general theory of relativity can be summed up in just 12 words: “Space-time tells matter how to move; matter tells space-time how to curve”. But this short description from the physicist ...

Einstein’s theory of gravity — general relativity — has been very successful for more than a century. However, it has theoretical shortcomings. This is not surprising: the theory predicts its own ...

A newly merged black hole does not become quiet at once. It vibrates, sheds energy through gravitational waves and produces a ...

Albert Einstein’s mind reinvented space and time, foretelling a universe so bizarre and grand that it has challenged the limits of human imagination. An idea born in a Swiss patent office that evolved ...

Scientists have demonstrated that Einstein's theory of general relativity is correct to a remarkable degree of accuracy, despite having been around for more than a century. The team behind the ...

Zumalacárregui, a theoretical physicist at the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics, had been studying how the discovery of a neutron-star collision would affect so-called “alternative” theories ...

Everyone knows Albert Einstein was a genius, but can you explain what he’s famous for? Arguably his foremost theory, his general theory of relativity, turns 100 years old this week. It was actually ...