BOULDER- Black holes, time travel and E= mc^2. They are all related to Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. How many of us, though, can actually explain any of it? This year, Einstein's theory ...
A black hole can feel like the most distant and unreal object you could ever think about, yet the way its darkness bends ...
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Solar eclipses occasion lots of excitement and pique the public's interest in astronomical phenomena. Eclipses can also expand our understanding of the universe in profound ways. In fact, astronomical ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the physics of nothing, everything, and the stuff in between. Gravity causes galaxies to rotate. Astronomers can study the ...
The first image of a black hole, captured in 2019, has revealed more support for Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. The new finding has suggested his theory is now 500 times harder to ...
String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...
Natalie Paquette spends her time thinking about how to grow an extra dimension. Start with little circles, scattered across every point in space and time—a curlicue dimension, looped back onto itself.