Cosmic censorship hypothesis
Hipótesis de censura cósmica
- Date
- 1969 · confidence high
- Place
- London, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Roger Penrose
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
General relativity conjecture postulating that naked gravitational singularities — not hidden behind an event horizon — cannot form from generic, physically reasonable initial conditions; proposed by Roger Penrose.
What it led to
- The Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems
- The debate on the determinism of general relativity
- Studies of black holes and event horizons