Black hole Quote by Kip Thorne

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

“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

“A mathematician tells you that the wall of warped space prevents the Moon from flying out of its orbit yet can't tell you why…

— Bill Gaede

We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual…

— Vernor Vinge

“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

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

— Janna Levin

“In our profession, we tend to name things exactly as we see them. Big red stars we call red giants. Small white stars we…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“But it remains a fundamental challenge to understand the very beginning-this must await a 'final' theory, perhaps some variant of superstrings. Such a theory…

— Martin Rees

We have to have a combination of general relativity that describes the warping of space and time, and quantum physics, which describes the uncertainties…

— 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

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 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