In a special illustrated feature, Ben Platts-Mills explains why Albert Einstein and other eminent physicists refused to believe black holes ... as a super-dense "white dwarf" but one only a ...

Over 100 years on, scientists have finally confirmed one of Albert Einstein's theories about the nature of black holes. In 1915, Einstein predicted that black holes should have a 'plunging ...

Researchers have finally confirmed one of Albert Einstein’s key predictions about gravity after observing a “plunging region” around a black hole. A team from Oxford University used X-ray ...

Albert Einstein is often cited as one of the most ... Elizabeth's reporting includes multiple exclusives with the White House, leading world coverage about a lost-and-found space tomato on the ...

Black holes are one of those rare entities that defy the rules of science and are associated with many paradoxes that seem unresolvable. However, a new study proposes a theory that could change ...

This area, where matter stops circling a black hole and instead falls straight in, was predicted by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, but it has never been observed before.

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

Albert Einstein was much ... delivered at the historically black college Lincoln University, Einstein decried segregation and called it "a disease of white people," Smithsonian magazine reported.

When you hear the name Albert Einstein, what do you think of? Many people picture a brilliant but absent-minded man with wild white hair. But like all of us, Einstein started out as a kid.