Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and feasting on its stellar material. The observation is ...

The way the fabric of space and time swirls in a cosmic whirlpool around a dead star has confirmed yet another prediction from Einstein's theory of general relativity, a new study finds. That ...

Astronomers have detected spacetime itself being dragged and twisted by a spinning black hole for the first time. The discovery, seen during a star’s violent destruction, confirms a prediction made ...

A groundbreaking study published in Science Advances has confirmed one of Albert Einstein’s predictions from over a century ago: spacetime vortices, also known as frame-dragging, have been directly ...

Einstein’s theory of relativity has many strange consequences. Time moves slower for those traveling at high speeds, and massive objects like the Sun deform the space-time in which they sit, causing ...

A team of astrophysicists from around the world has been following an unusual pair of spinning stars for almost 20 years, and now they say the binary system is persuasive evidence of frame dragging.

Even 100 years after Einstein formulated his theory of general relativity, new observations keep confirming its predictions. Now, Australian astronomers have found some of the best evidence of one ...

Scientists have observed a spinning star dragging space-time along with it, according to a new paper. Physicists today devote a lot of time to trying to disprove the claims made in Albert Einstein’s ...

A violent stellar disruption recorded in 2024 has given astronomers their most comprehensive evidence yet of a black hole twisting the very fabric of spacetime around itself. This effect is known as ...

NEW YORK — Solar sails that use sunlight pressure instead of fuel to fly through space have long been touted by space exploration advocates, but the novel space travel method could also be tapped to ...

Earth's spin warps space around the planet, according to a new study that confirms a key prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity. After 11 years of watching the movements of two ...