Black hole

Black Holes

By hadams99

  • Sir Isaac Newton

    Sir Isaac Newton
    Described gravity in his publication of "Principia."

  • John Michell

    John Michell
    John Michell conjectured that there might be an object massive enough to have an escape velocity greater than the speed of light in existence.

  • Pierre Simon Laplace & and his theory of Black Holes

    Pierre Simon Laplace & and his theory of Black Holes
    A French mathematicion named Pierre Simon Laplace reasoned that if the corpuscular theory of light proposed by Isaac Newton were correct, there could exist massive objects from which light could not escape. "Black hole." The Gale Encyclopedia of Science. Ed. K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner. 4th ed. Detroit: Gale, 2009. Science in Context. Web. 10 Dec. 2013.

  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein
    Predicted the existence of black holes following his theory of general relativity.

  • Karl Schwarzchild

    Karl Schwarzchild
    Karl Schwarzchild used Einstein's Theory of General Relativity to define a black hole. Defined gravitational radius of black holes, later called the Schwarzchild radius. "Black Holes - History." Black Holes - History. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Dec. 2013.

  • Sir Arthur Eddington

    Sir Arthur Eddington
    Opposed Einstien's theory of blakc holes.

  • John Wheeler

    John Wheeler
    John Wheeler coined the term, "black hole."

  • Stephen Hawking

    Stephen Hawking
    Stephen Hawking defined modern theory of black holes, which describes the final fate of black holes.

  • Hubble Space Telescope

    Hubble Space Telescope
    The Hubble Space Telescope probides the best evidence to date of massive black holes that lurck in the center of galaxies.