1915 ⟶ Schwarzschild Radius and Black Holes
Karl Schwarzschild: discovery of the Schwarzschild radius le...
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⚫ Schwarzschild Radius and Black Holes
Karl Schwarzschild: discovery of the Schwarzschild radius leading to the identification of black holes⟶
Schwarzschild RadiusBlack HolesGeneral RelativityKarl SchwarzschildAstrophysicsCosmologyTheoretical Physics
Germany⚫ Schwarzschild lays groundwork for black hole theory
German physicist Karl Schwarzschild uses Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity to lay the groundwork for black hole theory. He suggests that if any star collapse to a certain size or smaller, its gravity will be so strong that no form of radiation will escape from it.⟶
Black HolesGeneral RelativitySchwarzschildAstrophysicsCosmologyTheoretical PhysicsEinstein20th Century Physics
Germany⚫ Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar formulates the Chandrasekhar limit for black hole collapse
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar: Chandrasekhar limit for black hole collapse⟶
AstrophysicsBlack HolesStellar EvolutionSubrahmanyan ChandrasekharTheoretical Physics20th CenturyCosmologyRelativity
United Kingdom
United States📡 First Direct Detection of Gravitational Waves
AstrophysicsGravitational WavesLIGOGeneral RelativityObservational AstronomyBlack HolesCosmology
United States
Switzerland⚫ LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Merger
The LIGO team detects gravitational waves from a black hole merger⟶
AstrophysicsGravitational WavesLIGOBlack HolesMergerGeneral RelativityObservational Astronomy
United StatesSwitzerland