
Janna Levin on Seeing and Hearing Black Holes
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Einstein's Theory of Black Hole
The idea of black holes comes out of work from albert einstein around 19 15, in his majestic theory of gravityd the structure of space and time that we call general relativity. We still don't even know what would happen inside of a black hole. But as the decades have passed, we've getting more and more evidence that they're not just mathematical illusions, that they're really out there. And now, this past year, we have our first photograph som i mean, you cold ask that mean, a photograph of a black Hole? If it's it doesn't emit light, but you can see the photograph of the gas swirling around a blackhole. This is the first time
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