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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, an immensely important update to Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation, is currently our best approximation of how the universe ticks. But there are some holes in Einstein’s theory, including some gravitational weirdness around low acceleration “wide binary” stars. A study claims that the behavior of these …

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, an immensely important update to Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation, is currently our best approximation of how the universe ticks. But there are some holes in Einstein’s theory, including some gravitational weirdness around low acceleration “wide binary” stars. A study claims that the behavior of these …

The evidence for the Big Bang is overwhelming, but we cannot describe what goes on in that event. We can’t accurately call it a moment; time as we know it did not exist. Our science stops making sense a fraction of a second after it happened. The equations simply do not work. But what if there was a way to …

Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. There’s an old saying that everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. The idea behind this sentiment is that we might disagree on the importance we assign to various aspects of …

IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 Astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi proposes a mission to send a gram-scale probe to a black hole 20 light-years away. 💡 The mission involves a nanocraft accelerated by powerful lasers to reach its destination within 70 years. 💰 Significant financial challenges exist, but technological advances could reduce costs to about one billion euros. 🔬 The mission aims to …

Albert Einstein writing a density formula of the Milky Way in 1931 at the Carnegie Institute of the Mt. Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, Calif. (Public domain) In 1915, a 36-year-old Albert Einstein was living in wartime Berlin, tirelessly chipping away at what would become one of the world’s most foundational truths: the theory of general relativity. By then, the young …

LIGO Detects Black Hole Smashup So Extreme It’s Bending Einstein’s Rules  SciTechDaily Heaviest Black Hole Merger Flouts a Forbidden Gap  American Physical Society Astronomers detect most massive black hole collision to date  CNN Scientists Found a Black Hole That Shouldn’t Exist. Now Physics Has a Problem.  Popular Mechanics Physicists detect largest-ever merger of 2 black holes equal in size to 240 suns  USA Today Source …

Quantum Internet Meets Einstein’s Theory of Gravity in This New Ingenious Idea  SciTechDaily The Hunt for a Fundamental Theory of Quantum Gravity  WIRED Goodbye to gravity as we know it — Quantum wave makes spacetime tremble  ecoportal.net “Quantum Reality Is Crumbling”: Scientists Confirm Gravity and Space-Time Dramatically Alter the Quantum World in Astonishing New Findings  Sustainability Times This new experiment could take us closer …