general relativity Archives

Researchers have conducted a 16-year long experiment to challenge Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The international team looked to the stars - a pair of extreme stars called pulsars to be precise – through seven radio telescopes across the globe.

Challenging Einstein’s greatest theory with extreme stars

Pulsar in stellar triple system makes unique gravitational laboratory

Einstein@Home: Neutron stars in the computer cloud

Experimental quest to test Einstein’s speed limit

Universe chaotic from very beginning

Seven years ago Northwestern University physicist Adilson E. Motter conjectured that the expansion of the universe at the time of the big bang was highly chaotic. Now he and a colleague have proven it using rigorous mathematical arguments.
The stu…