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Headword Date Article Type
Arthur Eddington begins his statistical study of stellar motions 1906 T
Arthur Eddington develops the main-sequence mass-luminosity relationship 1924 T
Black holes within galaxies theory 1969 T Note
Blandford-Znajek Process developed - model for the extraction of energy from a black hole 1977 T Note
Carbon-12 resonance predicted 1953 T Note
Deuterium and lithium abundances predicted by hot Big Bang 1974 T Note
Differential nature of solar rotation discovered by Richard Carrington 1863 T
Dirac’s cosmological theory 1938 T Note
Edward Maunder plots the first sunspot ’butterfly diagram’ 1904 T
Edward Milne names and formalizes the cosmological principle 1933 T
First Cepheid variable star disovered by Edward Piggot 1784 T
First cloning of a vertebrate 1967 T Note
Hawking suggests black holes might have been created in the Big Bang 1971 T Note
Hoyle-Narlikar theory formulated 1963 T Note
Interstellar carbon monoxide found 1970 T Note
J.S. Hey detects solar radio waves 1942 T
Jeans length determined 1902 T Note
John Herschel publishes the General Catalog of nebulae and star clusters 1864 T
John Michell discusses classical bodies which have escape velocities greater than the speed of light 1783 T
Kerr solution found to describe a spinning black hole 1965 T Note

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