“Black holes” in space
Excerpt from the January 18, 1964 issue of SCIENCE NEWS LETTER
By Science News Staff, 12:53 PM January 9, 2014
Space may be peppered with “black holes.” This was suggested at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Cleveland by astronomers and physicists who are experts on what are called degenerate stars…. Degenerate stars are made of densely packed electrons and nuclei, or cores of atoms…. Because a degenerate star is so dense, its gravitational field is very strong.
According to Einstein’s general theory of relativity, as mass is added to a degenerate star a sudden collaps...
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