BLACK HOLE B lack holes are some of the most interesting pathologies in space and time delivered by Einstein's general theory of relativity. They form when matter collapses gravitationally onto itself, such as when massive stars burn out. They are a region of space where the gravitational pull is so strong that nothing--not even light--can escape. Hence John Wheeler called them "black holes." There is more. They incorporate singularities in spacetime structure: points where Einstein's theory breaks down, since the curvature of spacetime becomes infinite. And they can supply bridges to new universes. S uch a star may become a white dwarf or a neutron star, but if the star is sufficiently massive then it may continue shrinking eventually to the size of a tiny atom, known as a gravitational singularity. A black hole refers to the region in space in which the singularity’s gravitational force is so strong that not even light can escape its pull.
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING THE ORIGINE AND FATE OF THE UNIVERSE SPECIAL EDITION THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING THE ORIGIN AND FATE OF THE UNIVERSE STEPHEN W. HAWKING CONTENTS Introduction. FIRST LECTURE IDEAS ABOUT THE UNIVERSE.. SECOND LECTURE THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE. THIRD LECTURE BLACK HOLES.... FOURTH LECTURE BLACK HOLES AIN'T SO BLACK FIFTH LECTURE THE ORIGIN AND FATE OF THE UNIVERSE SIXTH LECTURE THE DIRECTION OF TIME SEVENTH LECTURE THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING. INTRODUCTION In this series of lectures I shall try to give an outline of what we think is the history of the universe from the Bigbang to black holes. In the first lecture I shall briefly review past ideas about the universe and how we got to our present picture. One might call this the history of the universe. In the second lecture I shall describe how both Newton's And Einstein's theories of gravity led to the concl