Can‘t see , but how do we know their existence - Deepstash
Can‘t see , but how do we know their existence

Can‘t see , but how do we know their existence

  • But scientists know they exist because they rip apart stars that get too close to them and because they can send tremors through space.
  • It was a collision between two black holes more than a billion years ago that triggered what are called ‘gravitational waves’.
  • Albert Einstein even wrote a paper in 1939 claiming that stars could not collapse under gravity because matter could not be compressed beyond a certain point.
  • The principal exception was the American scientist John Wheeler,emphasized that many stars would eventually collapse, and pointed out the posed for theoretical physics.

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