Oppenheimer's Predictions: Black Holes & Molecule Physics #shorts

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J. Robert Oppenheimer made two foundational contributions to physics: first, he predicted black holes in his 1939 paper 'continued gravitational contraction,' proposing that sufficiently massive objects would collapse to a point where escape velocity exceeds light speed, though this was later rigorously proven by Roger Penrose; second, he developed the Born-Oppenheimer approximation with Max Born, which allows quantum mechanical calculations of molecules by treating nuclei and electrons separately due to their mass difference, simplifying complex molecular physics problems.