Approach Quote by Andrea M. Ghez

This year I'm a star, but what will I be next year? A black hole?

— Woody Allen

“Out in our neck of the woods-26,000 light-years (2.5 X 10^20 meters) from the galactic center-stars follow orbital paths that take them around the…

— Caleb Scharf

As the planet wobbles, once every 26,000 years we visually align with the center of the galaxy. But it's such a slow movement that…

— Lee Carroll

We'll have four different gravitational wave windows open within the next 20 years, and each of them will see something different. We'll be probing…

— Kip Thorne

Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some…

— Anonymous

With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are…

— Ransom K Ferm

When we initially proposed LIGO, the only sources that we were really contemplating were supernovae. We thought we would see something like one a…

— Rainer Weiss

Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing…

— Paul Davies

This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in…

— Urbain Le Verrier

“Of course, there are numerous variables to consider before we can make effective use of this clue. We need to construct a virtual model…

— David Mack

Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such…

— Anonymous

Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day.

— Jeffrey Bernard