Black Hole

By JHCurry

  • Issac Newton's observation

    Issac Newton's theroy was confirmed that there could be massive objects in space that light could not escape from.

  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity helped him understand more about the univese and also black holes.

  • Subrahmanyan's Discovery

    Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was the first person to describe how stars can turn into black holes.

  • The Spiral of Black Holes

    Roy Kerr discovers that big stars will ‘drag’ the spacetime around them.

  • Quasar

    Maarten Schmidt discovered a quasar, is one of the most powerful things in the universe.this helps him discover that it and all quasars are powered by black holes at the center of a galaxy. Quasar: An active Galactic Universe

  • The Name: Black Hole

    The name was given to these 'Unseen Darknesses' seen only on X-Rays, by an American astronomer by the name of John Wheeler.

  • 1st Black Hole

    The first object to be reconized as a Black Hole suggestst to be founded as early as 1971.

  • The Event horizon.

    Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray observatory got strong evidence for the existence of an event horizon.

  • Works Cited

    http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Other Black Hole timelines - bringing us to other sources.