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. The Oxford team made the discovery ...

Some of the world's leading scientists have proven one of Albert Einstein's theories about black holes to be absolute correct. The finding comes more than 100 years after the legendary theoretical physicist made the bold prediction,

Following his theory of gravity, there comes a zone at the brink of a black hole where circulating matter can no longer orbit and is drawn straight into the abyss. Evidence of this ‘plunging region’ has recently been identified in X-ray observations of an active black hole.

Albert Einstein predicted the behavior of matter as it approached a black hole as early as 1915. Scientists have now observed a phenomenon that confirms the assumptions of the famous physicist over a century ago.