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Isaac Newton
Newton publishes a three-volume work, containing his discoveries of gravity and how it affects planetary orbits, as well as trajectories of asteroids. -
John Michell
One of Britain's leading scientists proposes that some stars could possess enough surface gravity to prevent light from escaping. These were dubbed "Dark Stars". -
Albert Einstein
Einstein's Theory of General Relativity now includes equations that gravity is a "warp" in spacetime. The more the mass of matter, the more it warps the spacetime around it. -
Roy Kerr
The mathematician presents his theory that black holes warp spacetime around themselves similar to water swirling around a drain - in a circular spiral fashion. -
Stephen Hawking
Hawking proves that black holes emit radiation, causing them to evaporate, and that they are not actually black in colour. -
Gravitational Waves
The last puzzle of Einstein's theory of relativity solved: LIGO detects ripples in spacetime, known as gravitational waves, which were created from two colliding black holes.
