In 1917, just two years after Albert Einstein proposed the general theory of relativity — his revolutionary new theory of gravity — he took a bold step forward and decided to apply his theory to the Universe as a whole. His question was simple but …
Gravitational waves (GWs) were found for the first time in history. This discovery proved a prediction that Albert Einstein made more than 100 years ago. It also started a revolution in the field of astronomy. Since then, dozens of GW events hav…
The Theory of Relativity, published in 1905 by Albert Einstein, postulated the existence of gravitational waves—oscillations of the space-time fabric—and more than a century later, we have irrefutable evidence of it. Now, a new study has managed to…
For the Breakthrough Junior Challenge (BTJC), which allows adolescents between the ages of thirteen and eighteen (13-18) to share their curiosity and passion in math and science with the world, Ryan Chester of North Royalton, Ohio, submitted a vide…
We’ve wanted to visit other star systems for decades. There’s just one problem: they’re so far away that even the closest one would take tens of thousands of years to reach using conventional spaceflight. Physicists, on the other hand, are not e…
When Adhara Pérez was three, she was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. She experienced severe bullying by her peers but in therapy, her parents learned she had a higher IQ than Albert Einstein. With her intelligence, Adhara graduated elementary s…
Space has a way of fooling the eyes. Consider the following picture – does the brilliant cluster in the middle represent a single galaxy, two, or maybe a half-dozen? You are correct if you guessed two galaxies. These are the dots in the ring'…
The concept of time is simply an illusion made up of human memories, everything that has ever been and ever will be is happening right now. That is the theory according to a group of esteemed scientists who aim to solve one of the universe’s myster…
THE FIRST BLACK HOLE IMAGE to ever be taken stunned the world three years ago, and scientists are excited for the next one. When the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team released its first-ever black hole image on April 10, 2019, a supermassive bl…
Tara Sharifi, a student at Aylesbury High School, recently took the Mensa IQ test in Oxford where she scored well above the “genius benchmark” of 140. The 11-year-old student scored 162 points on the test, which is two points ahead of Einst…
Gravitational Waves (GWs) were detected in February 2016 for the first time in history. This discovery confirmed a prediction made by Albert Einstein over a century ago and triggered a revolution in astronomy. Since then, dozens of GW events hav…
Do you think the Moon disappears when we stop looking at it? This question, attributed to Albert Einstein in his famous correspondence discussions with his colleague Niels Bohr , sums up a key idea of genius thought: that the properties of things…
For more than 100 years, Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity has been our best description of how the force of gravity acts throughout the Universe. General relativity is not only very accurate, but ask any astrophysicist about the theor…
Einstein was no stranger to mathematical challenges. He struggled to define energy in a way that acknowledged both the law of energy conservation and covariance, which is general relativity’s fundamental feature where physical laws are the same for…
