AT THE moment of the big bang, our universe emerged from a state
of infinite density, a point in space and time so small it had no size at all.
Consisted of the imploded core remaining after a giant star explodes, black holes are a kind of cosmic object whose core contracted to form a singularity, a point
with infinite density and the strongest gravitational attraction known to exist.
According to general relativity, the cosmos arose out of a point of
infinite density called the singularity, where space and time curved so radically that the physics breaks down.
The prevailing model of a black hole's interior suggests that its heart is a region of
infinite density known as a singularity.
If you find the idea of
infinite density puzzling, don't worry: this paradoxical - sounding concept arises because the laws of physics as we know them break down at this point.
Einstein also proposed that the universe began as a singularity, a point with zero volume and
infinite density containing all the matter of the universe.
The remnant then collapses to a black hole — a singularity, or point of zero volume and
infinite density hidden by an event horizon at a distance called the Schwarzschild radius, or gravitational radius.
This gravitational theory implies that when a star collapses into a black hole, its matter is crushed to a single point of
infinite density called a singularity, a full stop where all quantities become infinite and time ends.
With Roger Penrose I showed that if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct, there would be a singularity, a point
of infinite density and space - time curvature, where time has a beginning.
At the one extreme lies the superconduction of the field at absolute zero temperature; at the other, the lack of radiation in a field of «black hole» entities with
infinite density (so that they no longer exert even gravitational influence mutually).
In the standard Big Bang model, the universe began in a state of near -
infinite density and temperature.
When matter collapses under its own gravity, it forms either a point or a ring - shaped line of
infinite density.
Could the enormous accelerations surrounding a black hole, for instance, cause gravity there to become weaker, thereby making impossible the formation of a singularity — a point in space - time at which gravitational forces cause matter to have
infinite density and infinitesimal volume and cause space - time to become infinitely distorted?
That's because
the infinite density renders all equations meaningless.
It has time slowing as you approach the hole's edge, the so - called horizon, and then inside the horizon, time flows toward and into the singularity [the central spot of
infinite density and zero volume], dragging everything that's inside the horizon forward in time to its destruction.
With no more energy from hydrogen fusion to counteract the enormous inward pull of their gravity, the stars collapsed until all of their mass was compressed into a point of
infinite density.
Extrapolation of the expansion of the universe backwards in time using general relativity yields
an infinite density and temperature at a finite time in the past.
«Without fuzziness, all of the matter and energy of the universe has to be packed, at the moment of creation, into a volume that is zero, with infinite temperature and
infinite density.
This is one of the greatest mysteries in science, and I've spent the last few years trying to work out how to make sense of the moment when, in that picture, the universe emerged from a point of
infinite density and temperature — what's known as the initial singularity.
At the beginning of his career, in the late 1960s, Hawking proved that the universe must have started from a singularity, a point of
infinite density.
If Einstein's laws of general relativity were applied to our expanding universe, then at some time in the past all matter and energy must have been concentrated at a point of
infinite density.
A concept from mathematics that expresses indefiniteness, singularity was used by cosmologists to characterize the «primordial cosmologic singularity» that happened 13.8 billion years ago, when all the matter and energy from the Universe were compressed into an initial state of
infinite density and temperature, where the traditional laws of physics no longer apply.
They feel certain, for example, that black holes indicate regions where matter has been compressed into
an infinite density.
The crushing weight of constituent matter falling in from all sides compresses the dying star to a point of zero volume and
infinite density called the singularity.
It's a point of
infinite density and infinite gravity, causing an infinite curvature in spacetime.