Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems
Teoremas de singularidad de Penrose-Hawking
- Date
- 1965-1970 · confidence medium
- Place
- London, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Stephen Hawking y Roger Penrose
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
A set of general-relativity results showing that gravitational singularities are an unavoidable consequence of gravitational collapse and of the universe's origin, developed by Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking.
What it led to
- Modern black hole theory
- Big Bang cosmology
- 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics to Penrose
- Theoretical physics of quantum gravity