News articles tagged with 'relativity'
Pushing black-hole mergers to the extreme: RIT scientists achieve 100:1 mass ratio
— 19 Nov 2010 12:11 | AstronomyScientists have simulated, for the first time, the merger of two black holes of vastly different sizes, with one mass 100 times larger than the other. This extreme mass ratio of 100:1…
Universe chaotic from very beginning
— 8 Sep 2010 12:06 | PhysicsSeven 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…
Eclipsing pulsar promises clues to crushed matter
— 18 Aug 2010 07:38 | AstronomyAstronomers using NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) have found the first fast X-ray pulsar to be eclipsed by its companion star. Further studies of this unique stellar system…
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…
Galaxy study validates general relativity on cosmic scale, existence of dark matter
— 15 Mar 2010 12:45 | AstronomyAn analysis of more than 70,000 galaxies by University of California, Berkeley, University of Zurich and Princeton University physicists demonstrates that the universe - at least up…
New observations solve longstanding mystery of tipped stars
— 18 Sep 2009 12:59 | AstronomyMIT researchers and colleagues have solved a longstanding mystery about a pair of stars called DI Herculis whose peculiar rotation (a shift in their orbit that was four times slower…
Radio-telescope measurements advance frontier physics
— 2 Sep 2009 11:40 | AstronomyScientists using a continent-wide array of radio telescopes have made an extremely precise measurement of the curvature of space caused by the Sun's gravity, and their technique promises…
Testing relativity in the laboratory
— 20 Jul 2009 21:12 | AstronomyEven Albert Einstein might have been impressed. His theory of general relativity, which describes how the gravity of a massive object, such as a star, can curve space and time, has…
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…