Black Holes Explained From Birth to Death

In 1916 Schwarzschild read Einstein’s paper on general relativity. He was interested in the physics of stars, and had a lot of spare time between battles on the Russian front, so he solved Einstein’s field equation for the region outside a massive spherical object. His solution had many interesting features, including
 - Prediction of space warping in strong gravity, and invention of embedding diagrams to visualize it.
 - Verification gravitational time dilation, just as Einstein had pictured it.
 - Prediction of black holes, though this was not recognized at the time.

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