Answer Quote by Stephen Hawking

Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit.

— Brian May

My work on black holes was on the connection between black holes and elementary particles.

— Ashoke Sen

“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

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

“Black holes collect problems faster than they collect matter.”

— Carl Sagan

Only black holes of very low mass would emit a significant amount of radiation.

— Stephen Hawking

My work indicated that if we consider smaller and smaller black holes, at some stage, the properties of black holes become indistinguishable from those…

— Ashoke Sen

“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

“For instance, a black hole as light as a small asteroid would emit about as much radiation as a million-megaton hydrogen bomb, with radiation…

— Brian Greene

Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero.

— Steven Wright

“Blackhole doesn't crush those things in the vicinity. It miniaturises everything in different laws of physics.”

— Toba Beta

I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights…

— Edward Witten