We see Karl Schwarzschild of the Schwarzschild radius, the equation describing the size of a black hole, making his discovery while suffering from painful, chronic skin blisters as a soldier in ...

Just a year after general relativity theory were released to the wider science community, and while serving on the front line of the First World War, German physicist Karl Schwarzschild developed ...

Physicist Karl Schwarzschild accidentally discovered the concept of black holes in 1916 while working on a solution to Einstein's general theory of relativity. However, at that point, black holes ...