This exploits one of the predictions of Einstein's general theory of relativity: that the path of a beam of light (which is a straight line in empty space) is bent inwards by the gravity of a massive object.
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The discovery of quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity, vital to much of modern technology and economic activity, including the transistor, the laser and the atomic bomb.
At the time Einstein proposed his Theory of General Relativity, it had not been observationally established that the universe was in a state of expansion.
The SKA will join the hunt for gravitational waves ripples in the structure of space predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.
Although Riemann, who died at the age of only 39, also laid the foundations in geometry for Einstein's general theory of relativity, his paper on prime sattracted little attention in the decades after it was first published.
The effect is a direct consequence of Einstein's theory of general relativity which tells us that space is warped by the presence of mass.
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Assuming this principle (without proving it) allowed Einstein to develop the general theory of relativity in 1916, and to describe gravity in purely geometric terms.
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This proved a key part of Einstein's theory of relativity for the first time.
Instead of using Newton's theory of gravity to examine why fast-moving stars remain within their galaxies, the pair applied general relativity, Einstein's theory of gravity, to the problem.
It may, as John Learned of the University of Hawaii (another of the team's leaders) suspects, merely show how to extend the current theory in the same way that Einstein's discovery of relativity improved upon, but did not invalidate, Isaac Newton's mechanics.
The author cannot get through a discussion of Einstein's special theory of relativity without a reference to his own precocity.
One example of which the White House is fond is the atomic clock the Pentagon helped Harvard to develop so that scientists could test Einstein's theory of relativity.
In the past, solar eclipses have helped test such things as Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.
Einstein's special relativity theory that says energy equals mass times the speed of light squared underlies "pretty much everything in modern physics, " said John Ellis, a theoretical physicist at CERN who was not involved in the experiment.
Einstein predicted the distortion of light in this way in 1915, as part of his general theory of relativity.
One of his great achievements since then, together with mathematician Roger Penrose, has been to prove that Einstein's General Theory of Relativity means space and time has a beginning in the "Big Bang" and ends in black holes.
The gravitational field between the two black holes was so strong that it had never been possible to test Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity in such an extreme situation.
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