He shared the prize for the detection of gravitational waves—a milestone compared with Galileo’s invention of the telescope.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Riverfest with fireworks, Gilman Square arts and music, Diane von Furstenburg talks, a pop-up serves Indonesian snacks and ...

We suggest ball lightning does not fall because of the gravitational force experienced by ball lightning. We show that this ...

Researchers at Hiroshima University have developed a realistic, highly sensitive method to detect the Unruh effect—a ...

This week, researchers pinned down the age of a complete Homo-genus skull found in Greece in 1960 to at least 286,000 years old. Medical researchers reported that the majority of chronic pain patients ...

Black holes are a key prediction of general relativity, our leading theory for describing gravity. Astrophysical black holes ...

According to Newtonian physics, the gravitational attraction between two masses is proportional to the inverse of the square of the distance between them – the inverse square law. However, as Most ...

"GW250114 is the loudest gravitational wave event we have detected to date; it was like a whisper becoming a shout." ...

VIJAYAWADA: SRM University-AP hosted Phy-Spark 3.0, featuring Stars, Scopes, and Spacetime, on Sunday as an outreach initiative for school students.The day-long ...

Scientists are rethinking the universe’s deepest mysteries using numerical relativity, complex computer simulations of Einstein’s equations in extreme conditions. This method could help explore what ...

In an extraordinary testament to the predictive power of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, a star system has been ...