“Einstein was mistaken!” After discovering a black hole, scientists ask for a new theory of relativity
The general theory of relativity was published by the physics genius more than a century ago, to refine Isaac Newton’s law of universal gravitation. Providing a unified description of gravity as a geometric property of space and time, or spacetime, this model is still currently used by scientists as an explanation of gravitation in modern physics. Einstein’s theory has important astrophysical implications as it alludes to the existence of black holes – cosmic phenomenons in which space and time are distorted in such a way that nothing, not even light, can escape. At the center of a black hole, as described by general relativity, may lie a gravitational singularity, a region where the spacetime curvature becomes infinite. But while mathematics says a singularity is possible, nature apparently proves these do not exist, Discovery Channel’s ‘ How The Universe Works ’ exposed. The series explained: “When a giant dying star collapses, the mass of the star falls in and keeps fal...