Black holes in physics and the Universe
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https://doi.org/10.15407/visn2025.09.003Abstract
Black holes are mysterious space-time configurations described by solutions to the equations of general relativity or some alternative theories of gravity, and perhaps even some astronomical objects observed in the Universe. And although most people have heard of them (at least there is a common saying "money disappeared into the black hole of economy"), few people know about their properties, and even fewer are those whose ideas about black holes coincide with scientific ones. The purpose of this article is to introduce readers whose research or scientific interests are far from black holes to the mysterious world of these exotic objects.
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Parnovsky S.L. Black holes in physics and the Universe. Visn. Nac. Akad. Nauk Ukr. 2025. (9): 3—12. https://doi.org/10.15407/visn2025.09.003
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