Is there a time of day or night at which nature's heaviest elementary particle stops obeying Einstein's rules? The answer to that question, as bizarre as it seems, could tell scientists something ...

More than a century ago, Albert Einstein predicted that massive objects like large galaxies and clusters of galaxies act like giant lenses in space by bending light from distant objects.

Languages: English. Scientists have discovered an incredible new "Einstein Ring"—a type of intergalactic mirage formed when a massive galaxy warps the fabric of spacetime like a colossal lens.

Astronomers have identified the closest ever Einstein ring, a rare phenomenon where light from a further-off galaxy is bent by the gravity of a galaxy closer to Earth. The ring was previously ...

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Troupe said the idea for Riding the Light came when she found out Einstein had a daughter, Lieserl, with his wife before they were married and gave the baby up. No one is quite sure what happened to ...