Nov 5, 2018
Astronomers Once Watched a Star Turn Directly into a Black Hole
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: cosmology
History is full of forgotten heroes. Sometimes that’s because somebody else got credit for their work. Sometimes it’s because they were women in a male-dominated world. And sometimes it’s because a couple of continents *cough* Western society *cough* decided they didn’t want to include them in the history books. Meet Ibn al-Haytham — the guy who basically invented Science with a capital S.