Shortly after Einstein proposed his general theory of relativity, a German physicist called Karl Schwarzschild found one of the first and most important solutions to Einstein’s field equations. Now ...

The behaviour of the Maxwell field near one of the spatial infinities of the Schwarzschild solution is analysed by means of the transport equations implied by the Maxwell equations on the cylinder at ...

SCIENTISTS were able to make a breakthrough over the presence of a black hole in the universe thanks to the “simple” calculations from a legendary German scientist to crack Einstein's "unsolvable" ...

A new book demystifies black holes and explores what we still don’t know about them James Trefil and Shobita Satyapal The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of ...

Karl Schwarzschild, a child prodigy born in 1873, published on celestial mechanics by age 16 and earned his doctorate in astronomy in 1896. His career trajectory included directorships at the ...

When does a concept become concrete? How does an abstract idea evolve into something we believe — maybe even know — is a part of our universe? How does the lens of time transform an artifact of an ...

The Schwarzschild Radius is a characteristic radius associated with every quantity of mass. The Schwarzschild Radius is a characteristic radius associated with every quantity of mass. It is a radius ...

With the death of Stephen Hawking and the discussion it produced on black holes it was a little surprising that there was little or no mention of the man who created the subject, J. Robert Oppenheimer ...