General relativity (GR) is the geometrical theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1916. It unifies Einstein's earlier special relativity with Sir Isaac Newton's law of universal ...

For 100 years, Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity has survived just about every test that physicists have thrown at it. Announced in November 1915, the famous scientist's field equations ...

In Newtonian physics, space and time had their independent identities, and nobody ever got them mixed up. It was with the theory of relativity, put together in the early 20th century, that talking ...

One hundred years ago this month, an obscure German physicist named Albert Einstein presented to the Prussian Academy of Science his General Theory of Relativity. Nothing prior had prepared scientists ...

Simulated universe: EAGLE collaboration, J Schaye et al 2015. MNRAS, CC BY-SA A renewed suggestion that dark energy may not be real — dispensing with 70% of the stuff in the universe — has reignited a ...

A century ago, Albert Einstein became famous. Sure, he was already well-known among physicists. But the world at large learned his name only after November 1919, when news broke that his theory of ...

It stands among the most famous theories ever created, but the general theory of relativity did not spring into being with a single, astonishing paper like the special theory of relativity in 1905.

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