#Albert Einstein

In 1934, Austro-Hungarian psychologist Max Wertheimer wrote his dear friend Albert Einstein a letter and in that correspondence, he included a relatively simple and straight-forward riddle that somehow confounded one of the greatest thinkers in human history. Now, I bet some of you will be able to

Source: Neatorama Ripples or disturbances in space-time called gravitational waves have been theorized by Albert Einstein in his theory of general relativity but they have only been recently detected, confirming their existence. The first instance was in August 2016 which was recorded by

Source: Neatorama Time exists but the movement of time or its flow is subjective. It is something that depends only on our perception. That’s what Max Tegmark, physicist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology explains in his book Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News for Students This is what a black hole looks like. A black hole isn’t really a hole. It’s an object in space with incredible mass packed into a very small area. All that mass creates such a huge gravitational tug that nothing can escape a black hole,

Author: Emily Conover / Source: Science News for Students Black holes have been sucking up scientific attention from the very beginning. They were hinted at as early as the 1780s. Albert Einstein predicted them in his general theory of relativity. But they didn’t get the name we know today until