Einstein's contribution to physics was so great he still remains a superstar. But physicists Arthur Eddington, Hermann Weyl and mathematician David Hilbert were not so fortunate, with some facing ...

This is called its 'Eddington limit', named after English astrophysicist Sir Arthur Eddington. This is the point at which the ...

The British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington have a stern warning to would-be theoretical physicists in 1915. “If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give ...

On March 29, 1919, that opportunity came. British Astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington traveled to Príncipe Island off the western coast of Africa. His team photographed starfields during the eclipse ...

The rate at which a black hole feeds on matter is governed by what astronomers call the Eddington limit. This limit — named after the English astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington because he ...

Although students still learn that Einstein's general theory of relativity found confirmation in Arthur Eddington's 1919 observations of a total eclipse of the Sun, Eddington's data were in fact ...