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Einstein’s description of gravity just got much harder to beat – Science Daily
Astrophysicists put general relativity to a new test with black hole images.
Einstein’s theory of general relativity — the idea that gravity is matter warping spacetime — has withstood over 100 years of scrutiny and testing, including the newest test from the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, published today in the latest issue of Physical Review Letters.According to the findings, Einstein’s theory just got 500 times harder to beat.
Despite its successes, Einstein’s robust theory remains mathematically irreconcilable with quantum mechanics, the scientific underst…
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