In the last 10 to 15 years, major breakthroughs in astronomical observation have been made. The lecture by astronomer Mag. DI Dr. Peter Habison sheds light on this phenomenon and reports on the latest discoveries regarding the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way.
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Language: German
In 1915, Albert Einstein first predicted the theoretical existence of black holes. Just one year later, the German astronomer Karl Schwarzschild found a mathematical solution for a non-rotating black hole. Einstein himself was not convinced of their actual existence and it was only in the late sixties that John Archibald Wheeler coined the term “black hole”. In the following decades, the evidence for their actual existence in our Milky Way and in the cosmos became more and more compelling, until major breakthroughs in astronomical observation were made in the last 10 to 15 years.