Illustration : “Singularity is coming”

Aashish Loknath Panigrahi
Illustrations by Aal
1 min readMar 1, 2019
Singularity is coming …… for larger stars

(Welcome to the third post of “Illustrations on black holes” ,which is a series of illustrations which is based upon & Inspired Stephen Hawking’s BBC Reith Lectures on Black Holes).

In a research paper published in 1939 , George Volkoff & Hartland Synder discovered that a uniformly spherical symmetric star contracts to a point of infinite density called as “Singularity”.

The interesting thing is that formation of singularity isn’t possible for smaller stars , which burns slower , rather it’s the much-much-much larger stars which are responsible for formation of singularity …

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Illustration by Aashish Loknath Panigrahi (@ aashishium)

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Aashish Loknath Panigrahi
Illustrations by Aal

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