It was the discovery that changed the universe - or rather our understanding of the universe. One hundred years ago today, Albert Einstein presented his theory of general relativity. So for the next ...
Simulated universe: EAGLE collaboration, J Schaye et al 2015. MNRAS, CC BY-SA A renewed suggestion that dark energy may not be real — dispensing with 70% of the stuff in the universe — has reignited a ...
It stands among the most famous theories ever created, but the general theory of relativity did not spring into being with a single, astonishing paper like the special theory of relativity in 1905.