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Black Holes
This animated clip explains in 1931, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, calculated that if a star is big enough, that at the end of its life it can collapse to create a black hole from which nothing can escape. In fact, we are told, you can make a black hole out of anything as long as it is big enough.
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