Ten years ago, astronomers made history when they first detected ripples in spacetime, called gravitational waves, from the ...

Einstein proposed and published his theories of special and general relativity in 1905 and 1915. The concepts are monumental ...

LIGO observatory near Richland confirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity, it also has proven one of Hawking’s theorems.

A Hiroshima University team has designed a feasible way to detect the Unruh effect, where acceleration turns quantum vacuum ...

Science is a story of coming up with theories then doing our best to disprove them. That is especially true for theories on a ...

"GW250114 is the loudest gravitational wave event we have detected to date; it was like a whisper becoming a shout." ...

The findings resolve a long-standing problem in fundamental physics. Scientists at Hiroshima University have created a ...

Space and time seem like two completely different ideas, but Einstein's theory of relativity shows they are interlinked in a ...

Astronomers detected in unprecedented detail a collision between two black holes. Their observations confirm predictions made ...

For scientists, learning more about how black holes behave is essential to understanding how the universe works. A recent ...

A fresh black hole merger detection has offered the clearest evidence yet for Einstein’s relativity and Hawking’s predictions ...

Alexander Grothendieck was a titan in his field, making deep connections that fuelled a revolution in mathematics, before ...