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Of singularities and breadmaking
The gravitational collapse of massive stars can lead to the formation of a black hole: a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing that has ventured inside can ever escape – not even...
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Perhaps the most drastic consequence of Einstein’s description of gravity in terms of curved spacetime geometry in the framework of his general theory of relativity is the possibility that space and...
View ArticleThe Singularity Theorem (Nobel Prize in Physics 2020)
The British physicist and mathematician Roger Penrose shared one half of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 for his discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of...
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