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Black Holes Quotes
Black holes sit at the edge of what science can fully explain, and these quotes lean into that mystery. One admits that scientific knowledge here comes mostly from documentary television rather than formal study, a candid, humble starting point. Another connects images of nebulas and black holes directly to spirituality, tying cosmic wonder to something more personal. A more technical quote describes evolutionary cosmology, where universes may generate future universes from within black holes. The most striking line states plainly that general relativity predicts time itself ends inside a black hole, as gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density.
These black holes quotes hold scientific fact and personal wonder side by side, treating cosmic mystery as something to feel as much as understand.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever.
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Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money.
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The waves travel with the velocity of light and slightly squeeze and stretch space transverse to the direction of their motion. The first waves we measured came from the collision of two black holes each about 30 times the mass of our sun.
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For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books and science fiction, our gravitational wave discoveries have had an amazing public impact.
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We know about black holes and neutron stars, but we hope there are other phenomena we can see because of the gravitational waves they emit.
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Finding the first seed black holes could help reveal how the relation between black holes and their host galaxies evolved over time.
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Data suggest that central black holes might play an important role in adjusting how many stars form in the galaxies they inhabit. For one thing, the energy produced when matter falls into the black hole may heat up the surrounding gas at the center of the galaxy, thus preventing cooling and halting star formation.
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Evidence has been mounting for the key role that black holes play in the process of galaxy formation. But it now appears that they are likely the prima donnas of this space opera.
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The early universe was a dusty place, and the UV radiation from the hot, young black holes and stars would get enshrouded by dust, re-radiated, and scattered into red wavelengths like infra-red, causing these objects to remain obscured.
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I originally wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Then I had this huge fear of black holes because my brother learned a bunch of stuff about it, and he's like, 'Oh, yeah, if you go into one you're never coming back.'
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It's hard for me to speculate about what motivates somebody like Stephen Hawking or Elon Musk to talk so extensively about AI. I'd have to guess that talking about black holes gets boring after awhile - it's a slowly developing topic.
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I would love to be remembered for ridding the world of disease, but my knowledge of science comes from episodes of 'Nova' and shows on the Discovery Channel. I don't think a superficial understanding of shark behavior and black holes can help cure diseases.
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General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density.
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If you wanted to travel backwards in time, you're out of luck. We have theories on how it might be possible to do so, but they all involve wormholes and black holes and other stuff that would probably kill you. If you want to travel forward in time, you just have to go really fast.
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Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether or not what we're dealing with are black holes as described by general relativity.
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