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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

Scientists find antimatter is subject to gravity

An illustration showing blue spherical particles within a yellow cylindrical pathway surrounded by the outline of a circular frame
Scientists have struggled to preserve antimatter long enough to carry out experiments on it. Illustration: US National Science Foundation/AFP/Getty Images

Galileo put gravitational theory to the test by dropping balls from the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Four hundred years on, scientists have performed a higher tech version of the experiment to demonstrate for the first time that antimatter also falls downwards.

The study, by scientists at Cern, showed conclusively that gravity pulls antihydrogen downwards and that, at least for antimatter, antigravity does not exist.

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