Sentences with phrase «general theory of relativity put»

Although stars can never attain that much mass, Albert Einstein's 1916 general theory of relativity put Michell's hunch about supermassive objects onto solid theoretical ground.

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Einstein's theory of general relativity, put forth in 1915, holds that space and time are united as one malleable entity, spacetime.

«Theories of gravity that are different from general relativity often make such predictions, and we have put new restrictions on the parameters that describe these theoriesTheories of gravity that are different from general relativity often make such predictions, and we have put new restrictions on the parameters that describe these theoriestheories.»

The physicist's theory of general relativity, which celebrates its centenary this year, is responsible for putting a giant cosmic ring on a galaxy hidden at the centre of this image.

Producing an image that puts this century - old theory of general relativity on trial won't require any conceptual breakthroughs, says Doeleman.

If we look outside the scientific enterprise of his time to the culture in general, we discover that this same turn - of - the - century period in which Einstein conceived his theory of relativity put him in the national German - speaking Jewish company of such contemporaries as Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, the revolutionary atonalist composer Arnold Schoenberg, the critic Walter Benjamin, the great anthropologist Franz Boas, and the philosopher of symbolic forms Ernst Cassirer.

The answer is an exotic form of matter in just the right state to put a key assumption of Einstein's general theory of relativity to the test.