Air Quote by 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 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

Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting space, somewhat like vortexes in a…

— Kip Thorne

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

“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

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

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 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

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

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

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

There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky…

— Dan Simmons