More than 100 years after Albert Einstein published his iconic theory of general relativity, it is beginning to fray at the edges, according to Andrea Ghez, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy. On July 25, 2019, in the most comprehensive test of general relativity near the monstrous black hole at the center of our galaxy, Ghez and her research team report in the journal Science that Einstein’s theory of general relativity holds up.

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