Tag: general relativity
Relativistic gravitation has been measured like never before to slow down time on Earth
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Biography | Stephen Hawking – Theoretical Physicist and Cosmologist
Stephen William Hawking, born January 8, 1942 in Oxford, is a physicist British theorist and cosmologist well known for his work on black holes, the cosmology quantum and its popular…
Closest pair of supermassive black holes known to date
Supermassive black holes are everywhere in the observable cosmos. They are sometimes found in pairs in a galaxy, to the point of forming a binary supermassive black hole. The closest…
Astronomers have tracked down closest pair of supermassive black holes known to us
Supermassive black holes are everywhere in the observable cosmos. They are sometimes found in pairs in a galaxy, to the point of forming a binary supermassive black hole. The closest…
Gravitational waves would have made the Big Bang space-time turbulent
Space-time is not a material medium, yet its dynamics resemble that of fluids. Like them, it could have become turbulent, especially at the time of the Big Bang, when it…