Timeline of gravitational physics and relativity
The following is a timeline of gravitational physics and general relativity.
The U.S. Navy's nuclear-powered Task Force 1 underway for Operation Sea Orbit in the Mediterranean, 1964.
The Einstein Cross, an example of gravitational lensing at work
Image of Cygnus X-1 by the Chandra X-ray Observatory (2009)
The size of Sagittarius A* is smaller than the orbit of Mercury.
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington was an English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician. He was also a philosopher of science and a populariser of science. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honour.
Arthur Eddington
Plaque at 42 Walliscote Road, Weston-super-Mare
Eddington, right, on a horse; possibly during the Fifth Conference of the International Union for Co-operation in Solar Research, held in Bonn, Germany, 1913
One of Eddington's photographs of the total solar eclipse of 29 May 1919, presented in his 1920 paper announcing its success, confirming Einstein's theory that light "bends"