Why can't anything travel faster than the speed of light? Do black holes really suck? These are just a few of the questions author and astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett answers in his new book, "What is ...

Max Talmey, a friend of Albert Einstein’s during his school years, has just published a book to which Professor Einstein has given special commendation because of the lucid manner in which the ...

Asking what existed before the Big Bang is often dismissed as meaningless, since traditional physics breaks down when pushed ...

What does it mean to be to space-time? The seemingly simple question gets to the essence of twentieth-century physics and has ...

The review shows how numerical relativity transforms cosmology, replacing shortcuts with full simulations of Einstein’s equations.

A team of scientists claims a computational tool for studying black hole collisions could be our best bet for answering ...

I. IN continuation of my article in the Relativity Number of NATURE (vol. cvi., p. 795, Feb ruary 17, 1921), I propose to discuss more fully, and to express as clearly and simply as possible, some ...