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Einstein's Theory of General Relativity

Public Lecture - Gravitational Waves

Victoria’s Professor Matt Visser, a world-leading expert in general relativity, and Associate Professor Melanie Johnston-Hollitt, an internationally prominent radio astronomer, share their insights on how it was discovered, what it means, and the future of astrophysics.

 
God damn I was talking with a friend about it today. I don't think its just a coincidence.
 
An international team led by Japanese researchers has made a 3D map of 3000 galaxies 13 billion ly from Earth, and found that Einstein's general theory of relativity is still valid.

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Their results indicated that even far into the Universe, general relativity is valid, giving further support that the expansion of the Universe could be explained by a cosmological constant, as proposed by Einstein in his theory of general relativity.

No one has been able to analyze galaxies > 10 billion ly away, but the team managed to break this barrier thanks to the FMOS (Fiber Multi-Object Spectrograph) on the Subaru Telescope, which can analyze galaxies 12.4 - 14.7 billion ly away. The Prime Focus Spectrograph, currently under construction, is expected to be able to study galaxies even further away.
 
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