Jan 13
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Using a signal from dozens of rapidly spinning, dead stars, astrophysicists have gotten closer to realizing their…
Aug 23
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You may think of physics as a way to explain the behaviors of things like black holes, colliding particles, falling…
Jan 31 2020
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Scientists have observed a spinning star dragging space-time along with it, according to a new paper.
Aug 12 2019
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An attempt to prove Einstein’s hallmark theory of gravity revealed something even freakier: an unprecedented flash…
Mar 29 2019
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The LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors are set to resume their hunt for gravitational waves on April 1.…
Jul 27 2018
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Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity is magnificent. For a hundred years, it has consistently predicted…
Jul 4 2018
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Scientists understand gravity pretty well when it comes to two objects, but add a third, and you’ve got chaos—a…
Jun 22 2018
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It would be hard to overstate how resilient the theory of general relativity has been. In its hundred-plus-year…
May 10 2018
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It turns out we may have Mercury’s orbit wrong. Not by much, but by enough that a future mission can measure it,…
Apr 10 2018
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You might think you have gravity pretty well figured out. If you drop a ball out of a window, a short time later it…
Mar 12 2018
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It would be silly to think that scientists and astronomers have spotted all of the different kinds of weird things…
Jan 19 2018
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The best planet, Mercury, is in the midst of telling us something important about our sun: It’s losing mass.
Aug 9 2017
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The most basic physical laws you’ve learned—those drafted up by Isaac Newton in the 17th century—don’t work for…
Jul 19 2017
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Bad news: Humans will probably never explore the area around a black hole, at least while you’re alive. That’s…
Jun 7 2017
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Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, called general relativity, is probably the best physics theory ever formulated.…
Aug 22 2016
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Remember that time Stephen Colbert brought physicist Brian Greene on The Late Show to demonstrate the concept of…
Feb 12 2016
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Gizmodo readers asked a lot of great questions about yesterday’s big announcement on the discovery of gravitational…
Feb 11 2016
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David Reitze, executive director of the LIGO Laboratory, took the podium at the National Press Building in…
Feb 11 2016
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The rumors were true! This morning leaders of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO)…
Feb 11 2016
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It’s official: we’ve directly detected gravitational waves. And unless you happen to be a PhD physicist, you…