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Robert Lea

Right again, Einstein! Scientists find where matter 'waterfalls' into black holes

A black ball in the center of the screen looks to be falling into a warped spacetime diagram. .

Scientists have confirmed, for the first time, that the very fabric of spacetime takes a "final plunge" at the edge of a black hole. 

The observation of this plunging region around black holes was made by astrophysicists at Oxford University Physics, and helps validate a key prediction of Albert Einstein's 1915 theory of gravity: general relativity. 

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