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dhani — April 16, 2009 / 10:35 pm
Physicist John Wheeler is widely credited with coining the term black hole in his 1967 public lecture Our Universe: the Known and Unknown. He used the term to avoid him repeatedly using sentence “gravitationally completely collapsed star” on his lecture. However, Wheeler insisted that someone else at the conference had coined the term and he had merely adopted it as useful shorthand.
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