Antarctica sits above the strongest negative gravity anomaly on Earth, a region where the planet’s gravitational pull dips so low that the sea surface sags by more than 100 meters compared to the ...

The Indian Ocean looks flat from above, but one part of it sits far lower than it should. South of India, the sea surface dips so deeply that scientists have spent decades trying to explain what could ...

(CNN) — There is a “gravity hole” in the Indian Ocean — a spot where Earth’s gravitational pull is weaker, its mass is lower than normal, and the sea level dips by over 328 feet (100 meters). This ...

Gravity feels steady. You drop a set of keys, and they fall the same way every time. That reliability makes it tempting to picture Earth’s pull as uniform. It is not. After accounting for Earth’s ...

There is a place on Earth where the laws of gravity as we know them do not apply. Officially known as “the Indian Ocean geoid low” (IOGL), it is informally referred to as the Indian Ocean gravity hole ...

For years, researchers have tried to pinpoint how an area deep in the Indian Ocean with lower gravitational pull came to be. A team in India may have figured it out. The area in question is called the ...

In 1948, Dutch geophysicist Felix Andries Vening Meinesz was sailing the planet on a gravity survey when he discovered an anomaly in the Indian Ocean. It was a circular depression in the ocean floor ...

Bottom line: There's a well-known "hole" in Earth's gravity field just off India's coastline, known as the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL). A new study is providing a potential explanation for this ...

Scientists Warn Antarctica’s Massive Gravity Dip Is Growing Stronger as Mantle Shifts Deep Below (Image: Canva) Scientists have found that the Antarctic Geoid Low, a long-standing dip in Earth’s ...