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Introducing the black hole
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The quasistellar object, the pulsar, the neutron star have all come onto the scene of physics within the space of a few years. Is the next entrant destined to be the black hole? If so, it is difficult to think of any development that could be of greater significance. A black hole, whether of “ordinary size” (approximately one solar mass, 1 M⊙), or much larger (around 106 M⊙ to 1010 M⊙, as proposed in the nuclei of some galaxies) provides our “laboratory model” for the gravitational collapse, predicted by Einstein's theory, of the universe itself.
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- Authors
- Ruffini, R., & Wheeler, J. A.
- Venue
- Physics Today
- Publisher
- AIP Publishing
- Published
- 1971-01-01
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 30-41
- ISSN
- 0031-9228 (ISSN-L)
- 1945-0699
- OpenAlex
- W1970568585
- Cited by
- 665
- References
- 10
- FWCI
- 6.55
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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