News articles tagged with 'Einstein'
Princeton scientists say Einstein's theory applies beyond the solar system
— 20 Mar 2010 15:19 | AstronomyA team led by Princeton University scientists has tested Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity to see if it holds true at cosmic scales. And, after two years of analysing astronomical…
How would Einstein use e-mail?
— 26 Sep 2009 13:20 | TechnologyYou're not as different from Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin after all, at least when it comes to patterns of correspondence…
Researcher investigates the basis of Einstein's first approximation in the theory of relativity
— 16 Jul 2009 03:41 | PhysicsIn his discussion of accelerated motion on page 60 of The Meaning of Relativity, Albert Einstein made an approximation that allowed him to develop the theory of relativity further.…
Has Einstein failed physics?
— 13 May 2009 09:52 | PhysicsThe GBP3.6bn Large Hadron Collider is one of world's most advanced scientific experiments, built to smash protons together at huge speeds, recreating conditions moments after the Big…
The day the Universe froze
— 9 May 2009 14:50 | PhysicsImagine a time when the entire Universe froze. According to a new model for dark energy, that is essentially what happened about 11.5 billion years ago, when the Universe was a quarter…
New twist on 40-year-old discovery
— 24 Feb 2009 12:08 | AstronomyThe rotating black hole has been described as one of nature's most perfect objects. As described by the Kerr solution of Einstein's gravitational field equations, its spacetime geometry…
Astronomers gravitate toward Einstein's telescope
— 21 Feb 2009 11:26 | AstronomyScientists are harnessing the cosmos as a scientific 'instrument' in their quest to determine the makeup of the Universe. The University of Chicago's Evalyn Gates calls the instrument…
Astronomers dissect a supermassive black hole with natural magnifying glasses
— 13 Dec 2008 16:26 | AstronomyThe team of astronomers from Europe and the US studied the 'Einstein Cross,' a famous cosmic mirage. This cross-shaped configuration consists of four images of a single very distant…
Cosmic lens reveals distant galactic violence
— 21 Oct 2008 10:28 | AstronomyBy cleverly unravelling the workings of a natural cosmic lens, astronomers have gained a rare glimpse of the violent assembly of a young galaxy in the early Universe. Their new picture…
Observations of unique dead star system show effects of general relativity
— 3 Jul 2008 18:00 | AstronomyEclipses in a unique system of two dead stars, called pulsars, has shown that one of the pair is 'wobbling' in space - just like a spinning top. The effect, called precession, is precisely…