“A black hole the size of 300 billion stars is gobbling up the M87 galaxy because astronomers gave it a boring name.” — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction… — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
“I was looking for a little tiny spot to disappear into. I wanted a hole I could fall inside of: a little… — R.J. Palacio Copy Share Image
Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time,… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
Only a few kinds of images force you to shut your eyes: death, suffering, the opening of the body, some aspects of… — Orlan Copy Share Image
“If my body is a Universe, I have a black hole. I mask it, but it sits at the center of my… — Claudia Turner Copy Share Image
I would love to be remembered for ridding the world of disease, but my knowledge of science comes from episodes of 'Nova'… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
There's a large cluster of stars that are orbiting the center of our galaxy. And by measuring the motion of stars, and… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
“Broken leaves flew into the air from the violence of his thrashing, and the gore and blood kept pouring from the black… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping… — Sean Wilsey Copy Share Image
Breakup blackout is when you're so upset and you've been crying so much that you basically black out for a couple of… — Rumer Willis Copy Share Image
“Whatever is happening on very small scales near the horizon of the black hole will be enlarged by the effect whereby the… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each second a thousand suns are born; where… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Nick was waiting for him. Gabriel hesitated. He wished those text messages had come with some kind of sign, whether Nick was… — Brigid Kemmerer Copy Share Image
“Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book or How you can survive in the Cosmos about which you know more and… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“The success of discovering a thermodynamic principle associated with the gravitational field of a black hole has led to a speculation that… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“The day i met Cameron,the pieces started to flow into place,and the night that Cameron kissed me,the day that he sat next… — Julie Hockley Copy Share Image
“Grinning, she hovered over him. Then, like a fist closing around a doorknob, her grin closed around him. With her lips, she… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the rest of the world was gone. It was the most plausible answer. Heaven knows she couldn’t see or think of… — Aleatha Romig Copy Share Image
“This is not the sort of thing that shows up in satellite photographs. Whether in CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, or in… — Barbara Demick Copy Share Image
“Go out onto the deck and stare at the sky for ten minutes, and remind yourself that ultimately ours is a meaningless… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
The whole idea of gravity curling up space, that is the epitome of what is going on in a black hole. I… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
An event horizon, or the point of no return, is only a byproduct of the bending of space. However, electricity and magnetism,… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Ed Lukowich professes, ‘If indeed Black Holes have amazingly built and are presently in control of our cosmos, then an awareness of… — Ed Lukowich Copy Share Image
I ended up moving to Miami and bartending, but the party atmosphere is a black hole down there. People party all the… — Jessie Reyez Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to speculate about what motivates somebody like Stephen Hawking or Elon Musk to talk so extensively about AI.… — Oren Etzioni Copy Share Image
The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
I definitely have a different perspective on music in general. But once I actually have a guitar in my hands, I think… — Bill Orcutt Copy Share Image
If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
In elementary school, I read every single space book in the library about all the planets, about nebulas, about black holes. So… — Sunil Nagaraj Copy Share Image
So while you're getting ripped apart head to toe as you fall into a black hole, you will also extrude through the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“If all of the presently observable universe pooled its matter to create one giant black hole, its radius measured in light-years would… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“...stars are dying all the time. Some explode. Some collapse and cave in on themselves. Those ones become black holes. Others get… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“But if you’ve seen a dead body, you know how they change the air: that huge silence, the absence strong as a… — Tana French Copy Share Image
What I do for living, working on something called string theory which we think may answer the fundamental question: Are there other… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
