Ironically, Einstein himself did not believe in the existence of black holes, and he strongly resisted the idea, even though his own theory predicted them. The general scientific consensus is now that black holes do in fact exist, and that they are actually one of the most important features of our universe. read more
Black holes wormholes, dark matter, dark energy, time, quantum theory, etc. so people who are studying black holes have prolly been studying them more than anything else. So changing reasearch could end in disaster. read more
Black Holes are important for the creation of galaxies based on evidence found by the NUKER team in the late 1990's, which demonstrated a positive correlation between the speed at which stars move on the outer edge of a galaxy (sigma), and the density of the black hole in the center. read more
Black holes are a phenomenon predicted by Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which was published in 1916. In fact, the idea of a black hole was proposed as early as 1783 by the amateur British astronomer John Michell (and independently by the Frenchman Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1795). read more