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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

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

But if you think about a practical implication of enriching your life and giving you a sense of being part of a larger cosmos…

— Brian Greene

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

For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books and science…

— Rainer Weiss

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

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

“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

What was done is measure directly, with exquisitely sensitive instruments, gravitational waves predicted about 100 years ago by Albert Einstein. These waves are a…

— Rainer Weiss

We knew about black holes in other ways, and we knew about neutron stars - well, those are the two things that ultimately got…

— Rainer Weiss