Roy Kerr

Mathematician Roy Kerr predicted space travel through black holes

(ORDO NEWS) — Back in 1963, even before the official confirmation of the existence of black holes, the New Zealand mathematician Roy Patrick Kerr, who at that time was only 29 years old, was able to solve the equations of Albert Einstein and describe the gravitational field of a rotating black hole. The gray-haired scientists were so delighted with the work of Kerr that they themselves became interested in studying…