Sentences with phrase «something about the black hole»

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If you take the time to look up into the sky at night, or amaze at life itself, or think deeply about black holes, or try to understand how complicated something as simple as a tree leaf is, and NOT think there is the possibility of there being angels, demons, God, and Satan... well, then I say you are missing something big.

This was a major triumph for string theory because it could do something — offer clues about a black hole's inner makeup — that no other approach could.

But within the Milky Way's invisible heart lurks something even darker: a black hole about 4 million times as massive as the sun.

«Something about jellyfish galaxies makes them the ideal feeding ground for supermassive black holes»

This suggests there is something about jellyfish galaxies that makes them the ideal feeding ground for supermassive black holes, she says.

The source might be something we already know about — possibly the fierce explosions called gamma - ray bursts that are thought to mark the birth of black holes.

Similarly, if a science - fiction writer has something he wants to say about the interactions between some intelligent extraterrestrials and our present human race, he often finds it necessary to pretend that some means of faster - than - light travel can be found (tachyon transmissions, black - hole transit, «warp drive», or whatever), and Einstein be hanged.

Either Hawking was wrong about black holes» destroying all traces of their past, or something was wrong with quantum mechanics, whose equations require that information never be lost.

The thing about these little black holes — and this is actually something I talk about [a] lot in the book and which is essential to unifying physics — little black holes, you've [got] to think of them very differently from the big ones.

As we noted, the LHC will not destroy the world and as George Musser wrote to me after we recorded the interview, «I said something to the effect that scientists had stocked [stoked] concerns about black holes by saying the LHC would create particles not seen since the big bang, but those particles have been seen since the big bang, namely in natural processes such as cosmic ray collisions; therefore if black holes posed a threat, the universe would already be a goner.»

«These findings may be telling us something very deep about the formation of star clusters and black holes in the early universe,» says Roeland Van Der Marel of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

I'm talking about the Oscar race, which was something of a black hole for its first three months, the inevitable result of a season with no clear frontrunner that was also frequently drowned out by that other news cycle I mentioned earlier.