Become Quote by Ashoke Sen

My work on black holes was on the connection between black holes and elementary particles.

— Ashoke Sen

“We don't really know whether there are black holes that emit observable amounts of Hawking radiation. Nevertheless, there is no way to overestimate the…

— Henning Genz

My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but…

— Stephen Hawking

Researchers argue that it's of utmost importance to unravel the nature of black holes, lest we someday begin to worship them. Sounds ridiculous, but…

— Eric Chaisson

Black holes are pretty scary when you ponder them. They seem nihilistic, infinitely destructive on an inconceivable scale, notwithstanding the ideas of Hawking radiation.

— James Marsh

“We have good reason to believe that space and time begin to merge into quantum mechanical uncertainty at distances this small; they must be…

— Henning Genz

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our…

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit.

— Brian May

“Then, in 1974, Stephen Hawking made a dramatic discovery. He decided to examine for the forst time what occurs when one applies the notions…

— John D. Barrow

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

“As scientists would discover after Einstein’s death, Schwarzschild’s odd theory was right. Stars could collapse and create such a phenomenon, and in fact they…

— Walter Isaacson

“Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has proved that if two black holes unite, the surface area of the final black hole must exceed the sum of…

— Clifford A. Pickover