By Ashley Strickland | CNN | Updated 1:59 PM ET, Fri October 2, 2020 (CNN) The first image of a black hole, captured in 2019, has revealed more support for Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The new finding has suggested his theory is now 500 times harder to beat.Einstein’s theory, or the idea that gravity is matter warping […]
Year: 2020
Putting the Squeeze on General Relativity
Analyzing the first image of a black hole in a nearby galaxy, researchers have provided quantitative tests of general relativity in the strongest gravitational fields yet. October 1, 2020 | Physics 13, s128 In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) released the first image of a giant black hole in the nearby galaxy M87. Revealing a circular […]