After decades of effort, scientists are finally seeing black holes—or are they?
Share General relativity makes very specific predictions about what black holes are and how they should appear, as shown in this simulation. GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER/JEREMY SCHNITTMAN After decades of effort, scientists are finally seeing black holes—or are they? Jan. 7, 2021 , 1:45 PM While working on his doctorate in theoretical physics in the early 1970s, Saul Teukolsky solved a problem that seemed purely hypothetical. Imagine a black hole, the ghostly knot of gravity that forms when, say, a massive star burns out and collapses to an infinitesimal point. Suppose you perturb it...
Source: sciencemag.org
