Scientists might have discovered the first signs of the gravitational-wave background: a sea of ripples in space-time reverberating throughout the universe. Albert Einstein first predicted the existence of gravitational waves. They have recently been detected following violent collisions of black holes and neutron stars. By monitoring dead stars throughout our […]
Albert Einstein predicted that extremely massive objects, like black holes and neutron stars, send out ripples in space-time when they collide. Einstein didn’t think humans would ever detect these ripples, called gravitational waves. But the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) proved him wrong 100 years later. Now a global network […]
Summary List Placement Seven billion years ago, two black holes crashed into each other and merged into one enormous black hole with the mass of 142 suns. The collision reverberated through space and time, and these ripples – a phenomenon called gravitational waves first predicted by Albert Einstein – travelled […]
Two black holes crashed together and merged in a violent collision that bent space and time, sending gravitational waves towards Earth. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory detected those ripples in spacetime, and a California telescope picked up a flash of light from the same spot. The flare marked the first […]
Large collisions in space, like those between black holes or neutron stars, create ripples in space-time called gravitational waves. The phenomenon was first predicted by Albert Einstein. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory(LIGO) recently sensed gravitational waves from a collision of two neutron stars – the second such event ever detected. […]
Large collisions in space, like those between black holes or neutron stars, create ripples in space-time called gravitational waves that were first predicted by Albert Einstein. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory first detected gravitational waves in 2015. LIGO and its partner in Italy, called Virgo, have been detecting waves from […]
Levi’s sold a replica of Albert Einstein’s historic Menlo Cossack Jacket. The item was sold in black and cost $US1,200. Levi’s made the Moosylvania’s list of “Millennials’ Top 100 Brands” list for 2019, which resulted from a survey of 1,000 millennial consumers. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. Albert […]
A gravitational-wave observatory in Japan is joining Earth’s most powerful tool to detect ripples in spacetime. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) first detected gravitational waves from the merging of two black holes in 2015, solving a 100-year-old mystery posed by Albert Einstein. LIGO and its partner in Italy, called […]
Scientists think they have detected the aftermath of a collision between a black hole and a neutron star, the super-dense remnant of a dead star, for the first time. The catastrophic collision nearly a billion years ago sent ripples in space-time, the gravitational waves that Einstein predicted. They passed through […]
Albert Einstein was famously a pacifist, but he signed a letter to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 urging him to develop the atomic bomb. Einstein and other leading scientists said they were concerned that Nazi Germany could use nuclear energy to build an “extremely powerful bombs of a […]
Albert Einstein‘s work in part led to the prediction of quantum entanglement: the idea that two particles can remain connected across vast distances of space and time. Einstein found the idea absurd and “spooky,” but it has since been proven with countless quantum physics experiments. No had ever made a […]
Scientists still have a lot to learn about black holes, the spaces at the center of every large galaxy where nothing can escape. Because black holes devour light, getting one on camera has proven nearly impossible. For the first time ever, scientists are set to reveal a photograph of a […]
Colliding black holes and neutron stars create ripples in spacetime, called gravitational waves. These were “heard” for the first time in September 2015. On Monday, a pair of gravitational-wave detectors called LIGO will turn back on after 6 months of downtime and upgrades. To boost its power, the experiment will […]
What did one of the most brilliant men who ever lived think of the concept of God? Not much. The proof of that and why he thought so is in one of the most famous letters Albert Einstein ever penned, around a year before his death in 1954. The letter, […]
Stephen Hawking died at the age of 76 on Wednesday morning. March 14 is also Albert Einstein’s birthday and Pi Day in the US. Hawking is survived by his three children and remembered as a physicist who reshaped our understanding of the cosmos and our place in it. Stephen Hawking, […]
Albert Einstein died on this day 63 years ago, but he remains one of the greatest minds of the 20th century. His contributions to human knowledge are unparalleled. The physicist conducted groundbreaking research on how our universe functions, formulated the Theory of Relativity, and predicted the existence of gravitational waves […]
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