Gravity, the force that attracts objects toward each other, is currently framed by Albert Einstein's theory of general ...

Some of the hardest questions in cosmology begin where the usual math gives up. Push Einstein’s theory far enough back toward ...

Noether discovered that for every continuous symmetry of a system, there is a conserved quantity—that is, a quantity that ...

Long and winding road: The Juice space probe taking the long way to Jupiter and its moons – Copyright NASA/AFP/File NASA Scientists have unveiled a new theory that ...

With this gift, Princeton will become the ninth member of the Leinweber network for theoretical physics, which is focused on ...

Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe, but they aren’t always silent. When two black holes are ...

Gravitational physics has become a truly experimental science as tests of the special and general theories of relativity reach new levels of precision Right on time When I was a first-term graduate ...

Yesterday, I wrote about the core concepts needed to understand quantum physics, which is one of the two pillars of modern physics. The other, of course, is the theory of relativity, the full and ...

First of all, the prevailing quantum theory, quantum field theory, is fully relativistic from the onset. Relativity is “built into” the theory, so to speak. And it’s the only quantum theory that is ...

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein reviews Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved by Marcia Bartusiak (CC BY-SA Alain r) While there have been ...