Able Quote by Brian Greene

Observing gravitational waves would yield an enormous amount of information about the phenomena of strong-field gravity. If we could detect black holes collide, that…

— Rainer Weiss

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

It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not…

— Yuri Milner

Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether…

— Kip Thorne

It's very, very exciting that it worked out in the end that we are actually detecting things and actually adding to the knowledge, through…

— Rainer Weiss

When the signal reached LIGO from a collision of two stellar black holes that occurred 1.3 billion years ago, the 1,000-scientist-strong LIGO Scientific Collaboration…

— Barry Barish

We know about black holes and neutron stars, but we hope there are other phenomena we can see because of the gravitational waves they…

— Rainer Weiss

Black holes can bang against space-time as mallets on a drum and have a very characteristic song.

— Janna Levin

The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than any suggested…

— Francis William Aston

I do not personally want to believe that we already know the equations that determine the evolution and fate of the universe; it would…

— John N. Bahcall

Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Ed Lukowich professes, ‘If indeed Black Holes have amazingly built and are presently in control of our cosmos, then an awareness of how black…

— Ed Lukowich