Rare and mysterious cosmic explosion: Gamma-ray burst or jetted tidal disruption event?
Highly energetic explosions in the sky are commonly attributed to gamma-ray bursts. We now understand that these bursts ...
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Physicists discover what's at the core of a black hole
What exists at the core of a black hole? A research team led by Enrico Rinaldi, a physicist at the University of Michigan, ...
End to one of the greatest mysteries of the universe? Scientists discover what’s at the core of a black hole
From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...
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NASA celebrates Edwin Hubble's discovery of a new universe
Slipher first interpreted his redshift data an example of the Doppler effect ... in that Einstein's theory of special relativity explained redshift as an effect of time-dilation that is ...
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Carnegie Science celebrates Edwin Hubble's discovery of the universe
But Slifer first interpreted his redshift data an example of the Doppler effect, which describes how ... He was partly right in that Einstein’s theory of special relativity explained redshift as an ...
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Does Einstein’s general theory of relativity still matter?
Special' means ‘in certain circumstances’ – so not including the effect of gravity. It took Einstein 10 years to make the theory work for gravity too, which is how general relativity gets ...