Michell, Laplace and the origin of the black hole concept

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Jul 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009jahh...12...90m&link_type=abstract

Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (ISSN 1440-2807), Vol. 12, No. 2, p. 90 - 96 (2009).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Michell, Laplace, Black Holes, Missing Mass, Dark Matter

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Black holes are fundamental to our understanding of modern astrophysics, yet the origin of this concept can be traced back to the writings of England's John Michell and France's Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1784 and 1796 respectively. Both independently postulated the existence of “non-luminous bodies”, and while Michell used graphical methods to explain his concept, Laplace published a mathematical ‘proof’ in 1799.

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