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Einstein Was Right: Astronomers Confirm Key Theory

July 28, 2018July 27, 2018 Admin

A consortium of astronomers said Thursday they had for the first time confirmed a prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity by observing the gravitational effects of a supermassive black hole on a star zipping by it. The German-born theoretical physicist had posited that large gravitational forces could stretch…

Astronomers Discover a Supermassive Black Hole from the Dawn of the Universe

December 9, 2017 Admin

And it’s much bigger than we expected. An artist’s image of a black hole with an accretion disk and a quasar shooting away from it. Robin Dienel, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science There was a bang. A big one. It was the beginning of everything, but for several…

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