Dec 13, 2021
How our views on black holes have changed since Einstein
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in categories: cosmology, physics
They’ve become an essential ingredient of astrophysics.
Black holes helped to explain new astronomical discoveries, becoming essential ingredients of astrophysics. Science regarded black holes as abstractions until the 1960s. The recent experimental discovery of gravitational waves has changed our understanding of what black holes are.
In 2016, the LIGO-Virgo collaboration detected gravitational waves generated by two merging black holes, opening a new era of astronomy celebrated by the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics.
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