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There's a large cluster of stars that are orbiting the center of our galaxy. And by measuring the motion of stars, and in particular, their orbits, we can figure out whether or not there's a central black hole.

~Andrea M. Ghez

Topics: Black Black Hole Center Central Cluster Figure Galaxy Hole Large Measuring Motion Our Out Particular Stars Whether

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Proof of the black hole is a tremendous amount of mass inside a very small volume. There's 4 million times the mass of our sun within a region that's comparable to the size of our solar system.

~Andrea M. Ghez

Topics: Amount Black Black Hole Comparable Hole Inside Mass Million Million Times Our Proof Region Size Small Solar Solar System Sun System Times Tremendous Tremendous Amount Very Volume Within

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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 confined to zero volume, which means that the density is infinitely large, which means we have no way of describing, really, what a black hole is!

~Andrea M. Ghez

Topics: Black Black Hole Black Holes Confined Density Describing Hole Holes Infinitely Interesting Large Mass Means Problem Really Region Space Volume Way Where Which You Zero

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When I was four, I wrote a song about falling into a black hole.

~Billie Eilish

Topics: About Black Black Hole Falling Four Hole Song Wrote

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Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Analyzing Aspects Black Black Hole Black Holes Conditions Environment Exotic Extreme Fundamental Hole Holes Ideas Important Laboratory Light Nature New Perplexing Provide See Shed Sometimes Space Space And Time Test Theoretical Time Within

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Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?

~Brian Greene

Topics: Black Black Hole Black Holes Contains Decades Falls Get Happens Hole Holes Information Know Lost Many Object Out Over Puzzle Regions Simply Struggled Where

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Shortly after arriving at a makeshift military jail at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, in May 2010, I was placed into the black hole of solitary confinement for the first time.

~Chelsea Manning

Topics: After Arriving Black Black Hole Camp Confinement First First Time Hole Jail Kuwait May Military Placed Solitary Solitary Confinement Time

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'Black Hole Sun' was written in a car when I was driving home from the studio one night. Pretty much everything that you hear was written in my head.

~Chris Cornell

Topics: Black Black Hole Car Driving Everything Head Hear Hole Home Much Night One Night Pretty Studio Sun Written You

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Six is the hardest number for me to experience, the smallest. It's the absence of something - it's cold, dark, almost like a black hole. If someone tells me they are depressed, I might imagine myself in the hole of a six to help me empathise.

~Daniel Tammet

Topics: Absence Almost Black Black Hole Cold Dark Depressed Experience Hardest Help Hole Imagine Like Me Might Myself Number Six Smallest Someone Something Tells

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The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.

~David Novak

Topics: Black Black Hole Directly Hole Holocaust Itself Look Swallowed Taken Up

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