Isaac Newton

What the world has learned from previous eclipses

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Photograph (bromide print) showing the instruments used by the British expedition sent from Sobral, Brazil, to the total solar eclipse on May 29, 1919. Sir Arthur Eddington of the University of Cambridge organized the eclipse trip to test Einstein’s theory of relativity. During the event, two heliostats with movable mirrors were used to send images … Read more

The first computer visualization of a black hole looked eerily similar to the real thing

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Jean-Pierre Luminet Without a doubt, black holes are among the most mysterious types of objects in the universe. Scientists understood their existence in the early 20th century in the wake of Albert Einstein’s revolutionary proposals on gravity. It wasn’t until 1964 that scientists even claimed to have observed one, and it wasn’t until 2019 that … Read more