Black hole scientist Bondi dies

A scientist who helped formulate a controversial view of the universe has died in Cambridge aged 85.
Sir Hermann Bondi was an astrophysicist who helped formulate the steady-state theory of the universe - which said it has always existed. When this theory was supplanted by the Big Bang in the 1950s, Sir Hermann did pioneering work on black holes.

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