Relativity

The magic of Father Christmas has long mesmerised both children and adults alike, but just how does that jolly man make it around the world and deliver presents to 700 million children? It’s a feat we’d think to be surely impossible, however Dr Katy Sheen from the University of...

Friday the 11th of February marked the dawn of a new era in observational astrophysics as the collision of two black holes, about a billion light years away, created a violent storm in the fabric of space-time that was visually spectacular. The resulting gravitational waves were detected by the...