{"id":184128,"date":"2024-03-01T15:31:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T21:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/black-holes-were-such-an-extreme-concept-even-einstein-had-his-doubts"},"modified":"2024-03-01T15:31:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T21:31:20","slug":"black-holes-were-such-an-extreme-concept-even-einstein-had-his-doubts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/black-holes-were-such-an-extreme-concept-even-einstein-had-his-doubts","title":{"rendered":"Black Holes Were Such an Extreme Concept, Even Einstein Had His Doubts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KyXC0xRwe6M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> Einstein\u2019s theory of relativity paved the way for black holes\u2019 discovery, but the concept behind their existence was so bizarre that even the scientific visionary was not convinced.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>More than a century ago, Albert Einstein stunned the world when he explained the universe through his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/6-things-you-might-not-know-about-einsteins-general-theory-of-relativity\">theory of general relativity<\/a>. The theory not only described the relationship between space, time, gravity and matter, it opened the door to the theoretical possibility of a particularly mind-boggling phenomenon that would eventually be called black holes.<\/p>\n<p>The concept that explains black holes was so radical, in fact, that Einstein, himself, had strong misgivings. He concluded in a 1939 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/1968902?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents\">paper<\/a> in the <em>Annals of Mathematics<\/em> that the idea was \u201cnot convincing\u201d and the phenomena did not exist \u201cin the real world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/eventhorizontelescope.org\/\">unveiling of the first-ever picture<\/a> of a black hole by the Event Horizon Telescope in April 2019, however, not only confirmed Einstein\u2019s original theory, but also provided indisputable proof that the gravitational monsters are, in fact, real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Einstein\u2019s theory of relativity paved the way for black holes\u2019 discovery, but the concept behind their existence was so bizarre that even the scientific visionary was not convinced. More than a century ago, Albert Einstein stunned the world when he explained the universe through his theory of general relativity. The theory not only described the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}