Discovery of Black Holes
Asa – What are we looking at?
Show me show me!
Casa – Oh Asa, move over.
Quit hogging the telescope.
I'm on a serious mission!
Asa – Let me help!
What are you looking for?
Casa – I'm trying to see if I can spot a
black hole!
If you keep annoying me, I'll send you to
it!
Asa – The black hole EATS dinosaurs?
Wait, what's a black hole?
Casa – It’s a region in space that has
a very strong field of gravity.
Once matter gets pulled in, it can't escape.
Asa – I don't want to go there!
Casa – Okay okay, how about I tell you about
how they were discovered instead?
Einstein proposed his theory of General Relativity
in 1915, which defined modern physics as we
know it today.
Physicist Karl Shwarzschild solved Einstein's
equations soon after they were the published.
Asa – Really?
Casa – Shwarzschild was the first person
to realize that black holes existed based
on the theoretical work of Einstein!
But do you know who's the most popular scientists
when it comes to studying black holes?
Asa – I know who this is!
Isn't this Stephen Hawking!
Casa – Professor Hawking discovered that
black holes have temperature, can give off
heat and can even evaporate!
Asa – Black holes are more complicated than
I thought!
