Sentences with phrase «first predictions of general relativity»

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Gravitational waves were first detected in September 2015, and that too was a red - letter event in physics and astronomy; it confirmed one of the main predictions of Albert Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity and earned a Nobel prize for the scientists who discovered them.

But thanks to a key prediction in general relativity, we have directly measured the mass of a white dwarf for the first time.