The prize for 2018, which carries an award of $10,000, is scheduled to be announced on October 23. Over four decades after he began his scientific engagement with gravitational science, Professor ...

The most divine, the galactic loop: ABHAY ASHTEKAR remembers his reaction the first time he saw the universe bounce. "I was taken aback," he says. He was watching a simulation of the universe rewind ...

A new paradigm for understanding the earliest eras in the history of the universe has been developed. The new paradigm shows, for the first time, that the large-scale structures we now see in the ...

Physicists at Penn State have provided a mechanism by which information can be recovered from black holes, regions of space where gravity is so strong that, according to Einstein’s theory of general ...

Nov. 24: Abhay Ashtekar is grappling with puzzles that stem from a gift Albert Einstein gave the world and whose centenary falls on Wednesday. On November 25, 1915, Einstein had set down the equation ...

The theoretical framework underlying gravitational waves may have to be revamped to account for dark energy and the acceleration of the expansion of the universe. That’s the conclusion of researchers ...

Instants after the big bang, the universe underwent a burst of rapid expansion known as inflation. In this period, according to standard cosmology, tiny ripples of energy seeded galaxies and the other ...

When stars collapse, they can create black holes, which are everywhere throughout the universe and therefore important to be studied. Black holes are mysterious objects with an outer edge called an ...

Indian American Professor Abhay Ashtekar is set to receive the prestigious Einstein Prize conferred by the American Physical Society (APS). The prize for 2018, which carries an award of $10,000, is ...

Indian American Professor of Physics, Abhay Ashtekar will be awarded the Einstein Prize for 2018 for his contribution to the field of Gravitational Physics. The prize, awarded by the American Physical ...

Indian-origin professor Abhay Ashtekar to receive prestigious Einstein Prize Professor Abhay Ashtekar is an American Indian who has engaged with gravitational science for more than four decades.

Over four decades after he began his scientific engagement with gravitational science, Professor Abhay Ashtekar is set to receive the prestigious Einstein Prize conferred by the American Physical ...