Einstein's Curious Mistake

"Black holes"--celestial objects so dense that their gravity prevents even light from escaping--seem strange and improbable. Yet modern science, drawing on Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity and his invention of quantum-statistical mechanics, insists that they really exist. Ironically, writes Bernstein, a physicist and former staff writer for the New Yorker, Einstein himself rejected the weird notion.

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