US physicist John Wheeler, who coined the term ''black hole'', has died at the age of 96.
The expression became a household term after he used it to describe stars that collapse into such dense cores that light cannot escape from them. Wheeler's family said he died on Sunday of pneumonia at his home in New Jersey. Wheeler was involved with the Manhattan project that built the world's first atomic 'Black hole' scientist dies at 96 ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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