Black Holes Timeline

First Named in 1783

Sep 15, 1783

First described in 1783 by the Reverend John Mitchell, a British amateur astronomer, as “all light emitted from such a body would be made to return to it by its own power of gravity."
A-"Stephen Hawking Makes Pioneering Discoveries in Gravitational Field Theory."Science and Its Times. Ed. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer. Vol. 7. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Science in Context. Web. 12 Dec. 2013.B- "Stephen Hawking Makes Pioneering Discoveries in Gravitational Field Theory."Science and Its Times. Ed. Neil

Schwarzxchild's Theory

Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

During World War I, German physicist Karl Schwarzschild made a theory that a star could collapse under its own weight, crushing it down until the gravitational field becomes so strong that neither light nor matter could escape. (A) A-"Stephen Hawking Makes Pioneering Discoveries in Gravitational Field Theory."Science and Its Times. Ed. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer. Vol. 7. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Science in Context. Web. 12 Dec. 2013.

Static Vacuum Field of the Point-Mass

Sep 15, 1915

Karl Shwarzschild obtained an exact solution of what is called static vacuum field of the point-mass. (B) B- "Stephen Hawking Makes Pioneering Discoveries in Gravitational Field Theory."Science and Its Times. Ed. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer. Vol. 7. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Science in Context. Web. 12 Dec. 2013.

Einstein's astonishment

Jan 13, 1916

January 13th 1916 Shwarzschild told Einstein about his solution. Einstein was astonished. (B) B- "Stephen Hawking Makes Pioneering Discoveries in Gravitational Field Theory."Science and Its Times. Ed. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer. Vol. 7. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Science in Context. Web. 12 Dec. 2013.

Yakov Zeldovich's paper

Sep 15, 1964

Yakov Zeldovich published a paper showing that a rotating sphere should emit particles, at least until it stopped rotating (A)

When it was named

Sep 15, 1969

It was named in 1969 by John Wheeler (A) A-"Stephen Hawking Makes Pioneering Discoveries in Gravitational Field Theory."Science and Its Times. Ed. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer. Vol. 7. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Science in Context. Web. 12 Dec. 2013.

Black Holes Have Temperature

Sep 15, 1970

1970 Mexican physicist Jakob Bekenstein (graduate of john wheeler) was the first to suggest black holes had a temperature. (A) A-"Stephen Hawking Makes Pioneering Discoveries in Gravitational Field Theory."Science and Its Times. Ed. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer. Vol. 7. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Science in Context. Web. 12 Dec. 2013.

Hawking is Found Wrong

Sep 15, 1973

1973 Hawking decided to examine Zeldovich’s Quations to his own, he found out that hawking was wrong and theat back holes do emit particles and continue to even after that stopped rotating. Also found out that Bekemstein’s theory of black holes having a temperature was right. (B) B- "Stephen Hawking Makes Pioneering Discoveries in Gravitational Field Theory."Science and Its Times. Ed. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer. Vol. 7. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Science in Context. Web. 12 Dec. 2013.