{"id":79971,"date":"2018-06-24T05:22:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T12:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/its-official-general-relativity-was-just-tested-on-galactic-scales-proving-einstein-right-again"},"modified":"2018-06-24T05:22:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T12:22:35","slug":"its-official-general-relativity-was-just-tested-on-galactic-scales-proving-einstein-right-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/its-official-general-relativity-was-just-tested-on-galactic-scales-proving-einstein-right-again","title":{"rendered":"IT\u2019S OFFICIAL: General Relativity Was Just Tested on Galactic Scales, Proving Einstein Right Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-official-general-relativity-was-just-tested-on-galactic-scales-proving-einstein-right-again.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Einstein\u2019s theory was validated on a galactic scale. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The curvature of empty space caused by an entire galaxy has now been pinned down with unprecedented precision, demonstrating Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity still rules on a super-sized scale.<\/p>\n<p>Not that anybody is seriously surprised. But on the off chance the results had failed to meet expectations, they might have provided insight into some of the Universe\u2019s biggest mysteries. It can be so boring being right in science.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers combined data from the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope and NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope to examine how light was warped by a nearby galaxy according to Albert Einstein\u2019s explanation of gravity.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/general-relativity-experiment-confirms-accuracy-for-galaxies?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Branded+Content&utm_campaign=ScienceNaturePageSign\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/general-relativity-experiment-c...rePageSign<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Einstein\u2019s theory was validated on a galactic scale. The curvature of empty space caused by an entire galaxy has now been pinned down with unprecedented precision, demonstrating Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity still rules on a super-sized scale. Not that anybody is seriously surprised. But on the off chance the results had failed to meet [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}