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Continued Gravitational Contraction

United States · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1939

J. Robert Oppenheimer1 September 1939

Berkeley · Science / Physics

With Hartland Snyder, models continued stellar collapse and shows a sufficiently massive star can become cut off from communication with distant observers.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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