New confirmation of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 - 10:22
in Astronomy & Space
Albert Einstein predicted that whenever light from a distant star passes by a closer object, gravity acts as a kind of magnifying lens, brightening and bending the distant starlight. Yet, in a 1936 article in the journal Science, he added that because stars are so far apart "there is no hope of observing this phenomenon directly."