General Relativity
General Relativity is a fundamental theory in mathematical physics and relativistic gravitation that formulates gravity as the curvature of spacetime caused by mass and energy, distinguishing it from Newtonian gravity and special relativistic field theories by its geometric description of gravitational interaction.
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Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters · 2016 · 14.3K citations · Full text
Natural Sciences, Astronomy, Physics +15
Anti de Sitter space and holography
Edward Witten · Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics · 1998 · 13.3K citations · Full text
Natural Sciences, Physics, Cosmology +14
Particle creation by black holes
S. W. Hawking · Communications in Mathematical Physics · 1975 · 12.9K citations
A new type of isotropic cosmological models without singularity
Alexei A. Starobinsky · Physics Letters B · 1980 · 7.7K citations
Natural Sciences, Physics, Cosmology +16
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Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Spain
277 publications · 30.3K citations
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Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Germany
114 publications · 52.4K citations
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California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, United States
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8.5K publications
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University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
194 h-index
2.4K publications
361.2K citations

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Paris, France
191 h-index
8.2K publications
2.7M citations
Princeton University
Princeton, United States
186 h-index
1.3K publications
241.4K citations

European Organization for Nuclear Research
Geneva, Switzerland
169 h-index
1.6K publications
168.2K citations
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Potsdam, Germany
167 h-index
7.5K publications
4.6M citations
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
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2.1K publications
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Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, United States
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PRL · 1.9K publications · 325.7K citations
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JHEP · 4.7K publications · 287K citations
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