Delivering the Badash Lecture, historian Matthew Stanley discusses the post-war healing effect of Einstein’s theory of general relativity Albert Einstein’s ascent to worldwide celebrity was, in large ...

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.

General relativity (GR) is the geometrical theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915. It unifies special relativity and Sir Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation with the ...

The Event Horizon Telescope’s iconic image of the black hole at the center of galaxy M87 once again shows Einstein was right.