General Relativity

Einstein's theory of gravity as the curvature of spacetime by mass and energy. Published in 1915, it predicted the bending of starlight, the precession of Mercury's orbit, black holes, an expanding universe, and gravitational waves — predictions confirmed across the following century and underpinning modern cosmology.

Albert Einstein

• The First Detection of Gravitational Waves2015 CE
• The Milky Way's Central Black Holec. 2020 CE
• The First Image of a Black Hole2019 CE

• Confirmed byThe First Detection of Gravitational Waves
• Confirmed byThe Milky Way's Central Black Hole
• Confirmed byThe First Image of a Black Hole
• Part ofModern Astronomy
• Required byThe Big Bang
• Required byCosmic Inflation
• Required byThe Expansion of the Universe
• Required byThe Hubble–Lemaître Law
• Required byDark Matter
• Required byDark Energy
• Required byGravity
• Required bySpacetime
• Required bySpecial Relativity
• Required byQuantum Gravity
• Required byThe Event Horizon
• Required byGravitational Singularity
• Required byHawking Radiation
• Required byThe Schwarzschild Radius
• Required byGravitational Waves
• Required byBlack Hole
• Developed byAlbert Einstein
• Associated withThe Fundamental Forces
• Associated withTime Dilation
• Associated withThe Equivalence Principle