Black Quote by Andrea M. Ghez

As an astronomer, I get to ignore the details of the things that we dont understand. Theres a lot of work that we can…

— Andrea M. Ghez

Black holes are enigmatic astronomical objects, areas where the gravity is so immense that it has warped spacetime so that not even light can…

— Priyamvada Natarajan

“In fact, if you have a very large volume of mass at constant density, then it is guaranteed to become a black hole if…

— Andrew Thomas

A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so…

— Kip Thorne

A big misconception is that a black hole is made of matter that has just been compacted to a very small size. That's not…

— Kip Thorne

“General relativity has a problem with infinities because inside a black hole the density of matter and the strength of the gravitational field quickly…

— Lee Smolin

There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which…

— Stephen Hawking

Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects…

— Brian Greene

An ordinary black hole is thought to be the end state of a really massive star's life.

— Andrea M. Ghez

Black holes are very exotic objects. Technically, a black hole puts a huge amount of mass inside of zero volume. So our understanding of…

— Andrea M. Ghez

Proof of the black hole is a tremendous amount of mass inside a very small volume. There's 4 million times the mass of our…

— Andrea M. Ghez

I'm interested in finding whether or not there is a really massive, what we like to call 'super massive' black hole at the center…

— Andrea M. Ghez