Theories of the deflection of light by mass date back at least to the late 18th century. At that time, the Reverend John Michell, an English clergyman and natural philosopher, reasoned that were the Sun sufficiently massive, light could not escape from its ...
What is Einstein Online?
Einstein Online is a web portal with comprehensible information on Einstein's theories of relativity and their most exciting applications from the smallest particles to cosmology.
Einstein Online is provided by the
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
(Albert-Einstein-Institut)
Includes information on our authors and contributing Institutions, and a brief history of the website.
More than 400 entries from "absolute zero" to "XMM Newton" - whenever you see this type of link on an Einstein Online page, it'll take you to an entry in our relativistic dictionary.
