Star smash-up is yet more evidence Einstein got it right about gravity

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A neutron star collision has given physicists another chance to test Einstein’s theory of relativity

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab

No matter what tests we throw at Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, it just won’t break. A collision of stars has now shown he was right, again.

The general theory of relativity predicts there are four dimensions, three of space and one of time, and that both gravity and light exist in these. But some people argue there may be extra dimensions. They think that gravity, but not light, could occupy them.

To test …