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 ...
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 evidence of a rare ...
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 ...