[noncount] : a quality that makes you continue trying to do or achieve something that is difficult. 1  What he lacked in talent he made up for in determination. 2  dogged/fierce/steely/stubborn determination.
The first modern solution of general relativity that would characterize a black hole was found by Karl Schwarzschild in 1916, although its interpretation as a region of space from which nothing can escape was first published by David Finkelstein in 1958.
Sir William Herschel announced its discovery on March 13, 1781, expanding the known boundaries of the Solar System for the first time in history and making Uranus the first planet discovered with a telescope.