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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Bob Somerby is reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Albert Einstein, which he calls ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. The question of gravity is, of course, a tricky one for Earth-bound ...

Researchers have successfully simulated how a ring-shaped black hole could cause general relativity to break down: assuming the universe contains at least five dimensions, that is. Researchers have ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. By analyzing the extraordinarily strong gravitational pull of the giant black hole at the center ...

An artist's visualization of the star S0-2 as it passes by the supermassive black hole at the galactic center. As the star gets closer to the supermassive black hole, it experiences a gravitational ...