Rogue black holes kicked from their galactic lairs are among the surprising predictions made by physicists using powerful computers to solve Einstein's equations of general relativity. David Appell ...

Since its introduction by Albert Einstein in 1905 (ref. 1), special relativity has been the accepted theory of local space-time. It not only resolved severe open questions in electrodynamics but ...

One of the goals of modern physics is to determine the underlying rules that govern our reality. Indeed, one of the wonders of the universe is that just a few rules seem to describe many aspects of ...

Pedro Ferreira looks back at how Einstein himself and a panoply of other physicists have framed the theory. Until very recently, relativists were few and often self-taught. General relativity still ...

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 ...

In 2015, the general theory of relativity will be 100 years old. In November 2015, Albert Einstein gave weekly lectures to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in which he set out the fundamental field ...

The two great pillars of modern physics are quantum mechanics and general relativity. These theories describe small-scale and large-scale phenomena, respectively. While quantum mechanics predicts the ...

Taken from the August 2021 issue of Physics World where it first appeared under the headline "Relativity, at top speed". Laura Hiscott reviews Reimagining Time: a Light-Speed Tour of Einstein’s Theory ...