Proved Einstein's theory of relativity at the galactic level
It seems that the interest of the whole scientific world is to prove what genius Albert Einstein says is right, besides his interest in proving what this genius says is wrong.
We have determined that a galaxy can curl an entire space in the universe . Through this discovery, scientists attest that Einstein's theory of relativity still applies to giant scales, which here are applied to an entire galaxy.
By combining data from the Southern European Observatory's Very Large Telescope with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, it was clear that close to a galaxy , exactly as Einstein explained about the impact of force interesting.
Galaxies can bend an entire space in the universe.
Basically, this experiment is a larger-scale version of the famous test made in 1915 by Sir Arthur Eddington . He observed and timed to see starlight from behind the Sun undergoing eclipse, to see that the path of starlight was bent by the mass of the Sun.
The result of this experiment surprised the scientific community as well as the whole public. It proved Einstein's theory of relativity, turning this brilliant genius into a celebrity after just one night, bringing the concept of relativity into the curriculum.
Mathematical operations all show that extremely large objects will curl up time, but there is no reason to think that this fact does not apply to things of larger sizes.
Sir Arthur Eddington.
"Relativism predicts that giant objects distort space-time," said astronomer Thomas Collett of the University of Portsmouth. "This means that when light passes through a galaxy, the path of light will be affected ."
Historically, no one has measured this phenomenon to be able to give an accurate number of the curvature of light as it travels through a galaxy. To do this, the galaxy's research team ESO325-G004 is only 500 million light-years away. Based on the distance of the Universe, this galaxy can also call "located near my home".
The galaxy's "dear" name is only E325 , and it is calculated that scientists calculated that the E325 obscured another galaxy, causing light from the obscure galaxy to go around according to the spacetime part bent, created by the E325.
Later, astronomers measured the speed of stars in the E325 to estimate the mass of the whole galaxy, based on the relationship between gravity and star inertia.
"We then compared this mass with spacetime distorted images, obtained by the Hubble telescope , " astronomer Collett said.
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Very Big Telescope.
The results show that as relativistic theory suggests, the figure is about 9% - light has broken about 9% because a whole galaxy has bent space-time. This result is also in the predictions of scientists.
"This is the most accurate test of solar system relativity until now, but only for one galaxy, " Collett said.
This result will allow astronomers to be more confident when collecting other information about distorted light in space. All that was collected was within the exact range they had assumed before.
And once again, they proved Einstein was right. It seems that the interest of the whole scientific world is to prove what genius Albert Einstein says is right, besides his interest in proving what this genius says is wrong.
But it is not possible to put an end to it, that we have understood the whole theory of relativity. There are still many aspects to discovering, we wait to see what the future will contain.
This study was published in the journal Science.
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