Been Quote by Kip Thorne

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

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

A lot of the things you see in science fiction revolve around black holes because black holes are strong enough to rip the fabric…

— Michio Kaku

We have this interesting problem with black holes. What is a black hole? It is a region of space where you have mass that's…

— Andrea M. Ghez

“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

“The key to a black hole's strange properties is the way it curves space-time. A black hole takes up no space at all, but…

— Charles Seife

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

General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density.

— Lee Smolin

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

“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