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On Continued Gravitational Contraction

Book • 1939
This landmark paper mathematically demonstrated that sufficiently massive stars undergo infinite gravitational collapse, forming what we now call black holes.

Oppenheimer and Snyder described how such collapsing stars would become invisible to distant observers as light bends back into the object, leaving only a persistent gravitational field.

The work laid the foundation for modern black hole physics but was largely ignored until the 1960s.

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in relation to his theoretical work on black holes.
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#468 – Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions

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