Cosmic Holes July 26, 2012Posted by hellerphysics48 in
Astronomy, Black Holes, Quasars. We have gazed out into the sky
for thousands of years, with each passing generation developing
a deeper understanding how the universe functions. In the last
100 years, developments in physics have lead to a greater
understanding of the actual makeup of the cosmos than ever
before. Albert Einstein, the famous German-American physicist,
helped to pioneer this deeper understanding. Under the
postulates of the Special Theory of Relativity, Einstein found
that space and time were connected. Through this connection,
variation in space must be accompanied by a variation in time.
Under Newtonian physics, any object with mass has its own
gravity, but space itself is “flat”. Under general relativity,
any object with mass will cause curvature in space and time.
This curvature is what we experience as the force of gravity. As
the mass increases, so does the curvature of space and the
gravitational force. In the life cycles of stars,