Oppenheimer's Controversial Legacy

This is the story of Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb. A brilliant man marred by pain and suffering. As tragic as some parts are, his life can teach us some valuable lessons. - On black holes. While others such as Scharszchild were first to describe the theory of blackholes, Oppenheimer's work was the first full description of how blackholes formed. "Oppenheimer proposed the very first collapse model to describe how a star could collapse into a black hole."

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