Looks Like Einstein Was Right

Yesterday, in the journal Nature, astrophysicists announced that data they utilized from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has led them to the conclusion that Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity is valid. The astronomers used a “map of the distribution of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, going out to a distance of 7 billion light years.” The authors conclude that “the existence of dark matter is the most likely explanation for the observation that galaxies and galaxy clusters move as if under the influence of some unseen mass, in addition to the stars astronomers observe.” Read the announcement from UC Berkeley online here, or read the entire science paper online here.