A star among the stars – The Mail & Guardian

A star among the stars – The Mail & Guardian

Black holes come from Einstein’s 1915 Theory of General Relativity. Nasa explains them as “among the most mysterious cosmic objects, much studied but not fully understood”. “These objects aren’t really holes. They’re huge concentrations of matter packed into very tiny spaces. A black hole is so dense that gravity just beneath its surface, the event horizon, is strong enough that nothing — not even light — can escape.”That is a mouthful. Dense. H…