Gravitational distortions produced by distant galaxies show a slight—but notable—disagreement with Einstein's predictions.

The study says that the gravitational distortions observed in distant galaxies exhibit subtle discrepancies with the ...

Scientists test the famous physicist’s predictions by calculating the distortion of time and space. Why is the expansion of ...

The accelerating expansion of the Universe has puzzled scientists since its discovery in 1998. This phenomenon, one of the ...

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An international research team's new calculations of the distortion of time and space presents new challenges to predictions ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Experts Plebański and Krasiński provide a thorough introduction to the tools of general relativity and relativistic cosmology. Assuming ...

A multi-institutional team of physicists is proposing an experiment to test whether gravity behaves as a quantum entity when ...

Using Einstein’s theory of general relativity, physicists found that clocks on the Moon would run 56 microseconds faster than ...

Why is the expansion of our Universe accelerating? Twenty-five years after its discovery, this phenomenon remains one of the greatest scientific mysteries. Solving it involves testing the fundamental ...