Balls Quote by Douglas Adams

“I read of one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got…

— Douglas Adams

“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

“A black hole the size of 300 billion stars is gobbling up the M87 galaxy because astronomers gave it a boring name.”

— Jim Harrison

Once again, my colleague Stephen Hawking has upset the apple cart. The event horizon surrounding a black hole was once though to be an…

— Michio Kaku

“In a galaxy far, far away, at a time when the Earth hosted nothing bigger than a simple bacterium, two monster black holes, locked…

— Marcus Chown

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

— Janna Levin

Supermassive black hole.

— Muse

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

— Andrea M. Ghez

“Prior to then it was believed that black holes were just cosmic cookie monsters, swallowing everything that came within their gravitational clutches.”

— John D. Barrow

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

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

The whole idea of gravity curling up space, that is the epitome of what is going on in a black hole. I would've loved…

— Rainer Weiss