Famed physicist Albert Einstein at the blackboard. Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity revolutionized science and, once proven observationally, brought the physicist international fame.

A prediction made by Albert Einstein in his theory of general relativity has come true as astrophysicists have detected light coming from behind a black hole. A team of scientists made the analysis ...

A century ago this year, a young Swiss physicist who had already revolutionized physics developed a radical new understanding of gravity. In 1915, Albert Einstein published his general theory of ...

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 ...

Albert Einstein’s legendary reputation as history’s greatest theoretical physicist, which National Geographic seeks to mine for humanity in Genius, is due in large part to his theory of relativity — ...

Albert Einstein would have been 139 years old Wednesday. Happy Birthday! Einstein’s science, and general views on humanity, have profoundly changed the way we see ourselves and the world we live in.

For more than a century, the double-slit experiment has been the sharpest test of what reality is made of, and of whether ...

Do kids really need to know about relativity? After all, most fourth graders are not going to have to explain the bending of space or the photoelectric test on their standardized tests. And isn't ...

First proposed a century ago, Albert Einstein's theory of relativity got yet another boost this week, a new study suggests, thanks to giant telescopes that peered at a huge black hole at the heart of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. We all know and love the world's favorite theory of gravity: general relativity (GR), first ...

Everyone knows Albert Einstein was a genius, but can you explain what he’s famous for? Arguably his foremost theory, his general theory of relativity, turns 100 years old this week. It was actually ...

Perhaps the 20th century's greatest physicist, and certainly the most well-known, Albert Einstein left behind a massive intellectual legacy — and quite a bit of correspondence, too. A great number of ...