Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]
by jcoffland on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @01:10PM
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This is also called an aptronym.
Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]
by dmix on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @01:27PM
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It's a little of both, but yes Schwarzschild technically first predicted them.
> In 1915, Albert Einstein developed his theory of general relativity, having earlier shown that gravity does influence light's motion. Only a few months later, Karl Schwarzschild found a solution to the Einstein field equations, which describes the gravitational field of a point mass and a spherical mass.
Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]
by limbicsystem on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @01:58PM
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Or was it the Revd. John Michell? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Michell
Re:Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]
by TheOtherHobbes on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @03:10PM
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Michell. And maybe Laplace.
Of course they "invented" Newtonian black holes, not relativistic black holes.
Even so - well ahead of the rest.
(As an aside, I have found a whole extra level to nominative determinism since starting to learn German — Schwarzschild = Black shield)