| 单词 | black hole |
| 例句 | A black hole seems to be the only really natural explanation of the observations. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Very high-energy particles would be generated near the black hole by the in-falling matter. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Tickler hung on the wall as well, the black holes that were his eyes swimming with malice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And I want to know about his talking devices, the supercool computers that help him talk and do really hard math problems, like finding black holes in space. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z It reminds me that I’m stuck with her—she’s unavoidable, even when I’m ignoring her, because Mom is an actual black hole. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z At first many people, including Israel himself, argued that since black holes had to be perfectly spherical, a black hole could only form from the collapse of a perfectly spherical object. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Some stars, the supernovae, are as bright as the entire galaxy that contains them; others, the black holes, are invisible from a few kilometers away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the black hole has mass, it causes space-time to curve. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z One can therefore make detailed models of objects that might contain black holes and compare the predictions of the models with observations. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I just wanted to slip into a black hole and never come out. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The singularity swirled inside me, a black hole threatening to pull me in. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z So after gravitational collapse a black hole must settle down into a state in which it could be rotating, but not pulsating. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z To understand how a black hole might be formed, we first need an understanding of the life cycle of a star. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The walls looked as if someone had piled up a number of stones in a hurry, the roof had collapsed, and where there must once have been a door only a black hole now gaped. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The poor astronaut who falls into a black hole will still come to a sticky end; only if he lived in imaginary time would he encounter no singularities. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z However, when I did the calculation, I found, to my surprise and annoyance, that even non-rotating black holes should apparently create and emit particles at a steady rate. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Emma pointed at a doorway in front of us, little more than a black hole in the murk. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The consequences that these would have for black holes and the big bang will be described in later chapters. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One is in the interior of a rotating black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If the rotation is zero, the black hole is perfectly round and the solution is identical to the Schwarzschild solution. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z So as the black hole loses mass, its temperature and rate of emission increase, so it loses mass more quickly. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z An infinitesimal fraction of a second prior to the bomb’s detonation, two particles collide with such fierce velocity that they form a micro singularity—a black hole too small to see with the naked eye. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The thermodynamic and psychological arrows of time would not reverse when the universe begins to recontract, or inside black holes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, this used to be the main argument of opponents of black holes: how could one believe in objects for which the only evidence was calculations based on the dubious theory of general relativity? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The subway train starts to move out of the station, slipping into a large black hole. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Anything but throw it down the black hole of the Early family debt. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z One such black hole could run ten large power stations, if only we could harness its power. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d stood there in my shiny white kitchen while my lungs collapsed into black holes and my brain exploded. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Thus the radiation by black holes shows that quantum theory allows travel back in time on a microscopic scale and that such time travel can produce observable effects. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The answer, quantum theory tells us, is that the particles do not come from within the black hole, but from the “empty” space just outside the black hole’s event horizon! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I lift the grate and stare into the black hole below. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z My jaw relaxed at the sight of the black holes that had swallowed my parents whole. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z However, as we shall learn in the next chapter, black holes are not really black after all: they glow like a hot body, and the smaller they are, the more they glow. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But there is a quicker way to find out what will happen: jump into a black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A black hole with a mass a few times that of the sun would have a temperature of only one ten millionth of a degree above absolute zero. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The moon was a black hole in the sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Instead, a particle loop approaching a black-hole loop stretches out and touches the black hole. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The curvature goes off to infinity because the black hole takes up zero space; the star has torn a hole in space-time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The infinite density of the black hole is a division by zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But an invisible object weighing ten times more than the Sun and collapsed into a volume the size of an asteroid can only be a black hole. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The nondecreasing behavior of a black hole’s area was very reminiscent of the behavior of a physical quantity called entropy, which measures the degree of disorder of a system. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If an astronaut falls into a black hole, its mass will increase, but eventually the energy equivalent of that extra mass will be returned to the universe in the form of radiation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, in 1973, David Robinson at Kings College, London, used Carter’s and my results to show that the conjecture had been correct: such a black hole had indeed to be the Kerr solution. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Its forsaken partner may fall into the black hole as well. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It tore out his front teeth, leaving two black holes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I was trapped in a black hole, stuck in a soundproof bubble sealed away from the rest of the universe. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z But the matter accreting into a disk surrounding the black hole would be a sight worth remembering, in the unlikely case that you survived the trip. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was too large to be felled by salt concentrate alone, but as it tipped, a dull roar emerged from the gaping black hole beneath it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The curvature of space gets greater and greater as you approach a black hole, and it never bottoms out. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Kind of like a supernova rather than a black hole—the opposite of having your balls stepped on, as similar as the experiences may actually be. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Construction hadn’t started beneath the house but at the other end of the black hole. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Such objects are what we now call black holes, because that is what they are: black voids in space. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z These “Kerr” black holes rotate at a constant rate, their size and shape depending only on their mass and rate of rotation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A flow of negative energy into the black hole therefore reduces its mass. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A yawning black hole opened in the ground at the base of the tree. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Then, in 1971,1 proved that any stationary rotating black hole would indeed have such an axis of symmetry. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike Bodega’s eyes, which were pools of ghosts and sadness, Nazario’s were black holes, nothing could escape them, not even light, as if he could read your mind. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z It could cause a black hole or something. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z If a star could collapse to such a small size, it is not unreasonable to expect that other stars could collapse to even smaller size and become black holes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if the whole universe did not recollapse, there would be singularities in any localized regions that collapsed to form black holes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And so the room remained dark, a black hole in the center of the household. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Their remains, and gas that is thrown off other stars, will fall toward the black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It therefore seemed that the area of the event horizon of a black hole could not be regarded as its entropy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In a black hole, space and time are meaningless. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This is a black hole, an object so paradoxical that some scientists believe that black holes can be used to travel faster than light—and backward in time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A more practical possibility is that such low-mass black holes might have been formed in the high temperatures and pressures of the very early universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Fact: Even though there are tons of black holes in space, scientists say they’re just too far away to harm us. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It was like Arkansas’s version of a black hole; nothing could escape it. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z This past summer my entire family had been sucked into a black hole with no hope of escape. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z And with my persistence that crummy black hole would eventually shrink and no longer have such a strong gravitational pull. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “I was a fool. I thought I could go anywhere in the Underworld, but I walked right into Gaea’s trap. I might as well have tried running from a black hole.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z With Fig still sick, the black hole was strong. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z But by their very definition, black holes are objects that are not supposed to emit anything. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And if heaven was on the other side of a black hole, dead people would have to be fired into space on rockets to .get there, and they aren’t or people would notice. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z To an observer at a distance, it will appear to have been emitted from the black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For two days I tried to wrestle meaning from the textbook’s dense passages, but terms like “civic humanism” and “the Scottish Enlightenment” dotted the page like black holes, sucking all the other words into them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But if these light rays were swallowed up by the black hole, then they could not have been on the boundary of the black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Down a black hole,’ I said to myself as I ran across the playground. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z However, they will break down at the end of the black hole’s life when its mass gets very small. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Superbug, nuclear war, man-made black hole, asteroid. I have a lot of theories.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z His face puckered, the tears leapt from his eves, his mouth opened till they could see a square black hole. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I want to tell her I don’t want to talk about any of this because I’m trying to get out of the black hole she keeps sucking me back into. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The best was when Thomas collapsed to the ground and joked that he’d fallen into a black hole and could never get out. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z If, instead, it were the particle member of the virtual pair that fell into the hole, one could regard it as an antiparticle traveling back in time and coming out of the black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The star would, however, continue to exert the same gravitational force on the spaceship, which would continue to orbit the black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The “no hair” theorem is of great practical importance, because it so greatly restricts the possible types of black holes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, the universe would crunch itself into a zero-dimensional point—like a black hole—and would disappear forever. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This nondecreasing property of the event horizon’s area placed an important restriction on the possible behavior of black holes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z However, he had been using a slightly different definition of a black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And if at the beginning of the summer someone had said I’d be friends with my nemesis, I’d have said there was a greater chance that Earth would be swallowed by a black hole. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z So perhaps an astronaut who fell into a black hole would be able to make money at roulette by remembering where the ball went before he placed his bet. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The term black hole is of very recent origin. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It is therefore possible, if a black hole is present, for the virtual particle with negative energy to fall into the black hole and become a real particle or antiparticle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to observe a primordial black hole one would have to detect several gamma ray quanta coming from the same direction within a reasonable space of time, such as a week. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If so, to an observer at a distance it would appear to be a particle emitted by the black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It is, will always be, a black hole in my timeline. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Famine, war, nuclear winter, black holes, or coronal mass ejections. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z In this analogy, a black hole is a kind of bottomless pit. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The number of black holes, however, is almost certainly very much higher; in the long history of the universe, many stars must have burned all their nuclear fuel and have had to collapse. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Satellite photographs of the Korean Peninsula at night show a black hole between China and South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Seeing those letters, that big, fat money prize, I felt like I’d been falling into some deep, hopeless black hole, and the universe looked at me and said, Not yet, Natalie. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Already bloody, mouth open in a high-pitched scream, pupils enlarged so her eyes seem like black holes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Others postulate that a mini black hole passed through the Earth in Siberia and out the other side. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I was no longer at a safe distance, staring at my frozen parents at the black hole’s edge. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It seems, therefore, that it must be a black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z However, any observer who remained outside the black hole would not be affected by this failure of predictability, because neither light nor any other signal could reach him from the singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Horrorstruck, Harry saw his mouth opening, wider and wider, to make a huge black hole. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z With primordial black holes being so scarce, it might seem unlikely that there would be one near enough for us to observe as an individual source of gamma rays. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Israel’s result dealt with the case of black holes formed from non-rotating bodies only. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z All my anger had fled, imploding back into my chest, slipping down the event horizon of the churning supermassive black hole inside me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z For this mechanism to work, the unseen object has to be very small, like a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s like a living black hole,” I told my classmates, “a real live black hole inside the ocean.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Instead of a white stool with a seat there was just a seat on a piece of wood with a great big, open, black hole underneath with the sound of flies coming out of it. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The trapdoor clanged back and he found himself looking into a black hole that stretched farther than the daylight could reach. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The forsaken particle might fall into the hole as well, but it might also escape from the vicinity of the black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The positive energy of the outgoing radiation would be balanced by a flow of negative energy particles into the black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As you fall toward the singularity, the black hole’s mass appears to grow and grow to infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Shadows slipped toward it, as if it were a black hole of pure evil. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Since we think there may be massive black holes at the centers of some galaxies, this is a conceivable explanation of their red shifts. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I could reverse time and prevent the ginormous star from exploding, so my family wouldn’t be swallowed by a stupid black hole. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Einstein was so disturbed by the idea of singularities that he denied the existence of black holes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I wanted a hole I could fall inside of: a little black hole that would eat me up. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z What happens next is not completely clear, but it seems likely that the central regions of the star would collapse to a very dense state, such as a neutron star or black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Such a place is called a black hole. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z During the gravitational collapse of a star to form a black hole, the movements would be much more rapid, so the rate at which energy is carried away would be much higher. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to understand what you would see if you were watching a star collapse to form a black hole, one has to remember that in the theory of relativity there is no absolute time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At this distance it would still be very difficult to detect the steady emission of a black hole, even if it was ten thousand megawatts. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be like...like being sucked into a black hole and spaghettified. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z We also have some evidence that there is a much larger black hole, with a mass of about a hundred thousand times that of the sun, at the center of our galaxy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I guess it does. So as he’s explaining all this, Sir Patrick Moore pulls the greatest feat ever—he walks right into the heart of the black hole and disappears.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The Giant reached out and rolled the stone to one side as easily as if it had been a football, and now, where the stone had been, there appeared a vast black hole. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z However, though scientists can detect black holes, they still haven’t spotted the zeros at their centers, since the ugly singularities are shielded by the event horizon. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “On black holes. But that was in January.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z No instrument currently imaginable will give scientists the power to observe strings directly; nobody can think of an experiment that will give physicists evidence about whether black holes and particles are, indeed, strings. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “A brief pulsation in the black hole of eternity. My advice to you—” “Wait and see,” I said. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z It occurs to me that this is exactly what Finch’s closet is—a black hole. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z A black hole begins, like all stars, as a big ball of hot gas—mostly hydrogen. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He could feel the place where they should have been, like a black hole inside him, but the words themselves were not there. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It would be a poor sort of immortality, however, because any personal concept of time for the astronaut would almost certainly come to an end as he was torn apart inside the black hole! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The women were alcoholics, Benito was as dumb as a guppy, and Tom was a moral black hole. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Like a Manichaean nightmare, the two sit on opposite poles of the number sphere, sucking numbers in like tiny black holes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z All they ever really saw of the soldier in white was a frayed black hole over his mouth. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Another one on black holes? Or phases of the moon?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It is thought that similar but even larger black holes, with masses of about a hundred million times the mass of the sun, occur at the centers of quasars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But even if we cannot harness the emission from these primordial black holes, what are our chances of observing them? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z These singularities would be an end of time for anyone who fell into the black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A neutron star has a radius of about ten miles, only a few times the critical radius at which a star becomes a black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Pubs are black holes. People go in there and never come out again.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Such black holes would have a much higher temperature and would be emitting radiation at a much greater rate. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d really thought that my model of a black hole to help visualize how it could “bend” space-time would win first place. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z We have previously mentioned the possibility of wormholes to get from one place in the universe to another without covering the intervening distance—through a black hole. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Black holes are very, very massive, so they are subject to the laws of relativity; at the same time, black holes are very, very tiny, so they are in the domain of quantum mechanics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He looked wistfully at that gaping black hole through which the rat had darted to safety. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z A black hole takes up no space at all, but it still has mass. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z All around it, water curved into a funnel, like light around a black hole. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Not rogue comets, not black holes, not the heat death of the universe. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The extra gravitational attraction of such a large number of black holes could explain why our galaxy rotates at the rate it does: the mass of the visible stars is insufficient to account for this. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Neutron stars would not be detected until 1967 and hard evidence of black holes not found until the twenty-first century, underscoring Oppenheimer’s achievement and the tragedy of his curiously unfulfilled career. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A primordial black hole with an initial mass of a thousand million tons would have a lifetime roughly equal to the age of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1998 two physicists from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem showed that even a spinning or charged black hole—with a nice, ring-shaped singularity—will kill an astronaut, thanks to mass inflation. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Even if the zeros at the center of black holes don’t provide an easy way to travel through space, the zero of quantum mechanics provides an alternative: the zero-point energy might be the ultimate fuel. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The number of black holes may well be greater even than the number of visible stars, which totals about a hundred thousand million in our galaxy alone. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The moon was a black hole in the sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Finn tried very hard to look like he was reading about Commander Toad standing at the edge of the black hole. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z My fury still raging, I grabbed a pair of scissors and snipped away until all the black holes were gone and I was alone. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Further encouragement for the existence of black holes came in 1967 with the discovery by a research student at Cambridge, Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, of objects in the sky that were emitting regular pulses of radio waves. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the black hole in the hull, the door to the cargo hold. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z According to this view, any non-rotating star, however complicated its shape and internal structure, would end up after gravitational collapse as a perfectly spherical black hole, whose size would depend only on its mass. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And the most profound problems in physics—the dark core of a black hole and the brilliant flash of the big bang—are struggles to defeat zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A black hole is a zero in the equations of general relativity; the energy of the vacuum is a zero in the mathematics of quantum theory. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “My life sucks worse than a greedy black hole.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He strode into the black hole still carrying Sophie in one hand, the trumpet and the suitcase in the other. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z One can also consider the possibility that there might be black holes with masses much less than that of the sun. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z However, one evening in November that year, shortly after the birth of my daughter, Lucy, I started to think about black holes as I was getting into bed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, a black hole is a point. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The pink boy shouts, showing a black hole where sharp teeth glow. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Of course, if a black hole as close as Pluto were to reach the end of its life and blow up, it would be easy to detect the final burst of emission. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This result became known by the maxim: “A black hole has no hair.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It aroused a lot of opposition initially because it upset the existing viewpoint: “How can a black hole emit anything?” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If you had one of these black holes on the surface of the earth, there would be no way to stop it from falling through the floor to the center of the earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Small, finite, and yet as infinite as a black hole in a galaxy. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z ‘It does in this house, Ted. Down a bloody black hole.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z So, paradoxically, smaller black holes might actually turn out to be easier to detect than large ones! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He showed that, provided a stationary rotating black hole had an axis of symmetry, like a spinning top, its size and shape would depend only on its mass and rate of rotation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As we have seen, this can produce some remarkable consequences, such as black holes not being black, and the universe not having any singularities but being completely self-contained and without a boundary. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In her right hand she held his .44 Colt, and the black hole in the barrel pointed at him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Once you pass the event horizon, signals you broadcast can't escape the black hole’s pull—neither can you. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This would be rather difficult, however: the black hole would have the mass of a mountain compressed into less than a million millionth of an inch, the size of the nucleus of an atom! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though a black hole is a star, none of the light it shines ever escapes past the event horizon; that’s why it’s black. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The slow rate indicated that the black hole’s gravitational pull was growing stronger. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Perhaps, as I. S. Shklovskii has suggested, there is a black hole hiding there, which ate the exploding stellar core and damped the fires of the supernova. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, one has a singularity contained within a region of space-time known as a black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I have done a lot of work on black holes, and it would all be wasted if it turned out that black holes do not exist. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If you wish to know what it is like inside a black hole, look around you. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It would either fall apart or it would collapse to form a black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The key to a black hole’s strange properties is the way it curves space-time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Even as he came panting up, the last of them vanished into the black hole. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z One can, however, have a different but equivalent intuitive picture of the mechanism for emission from black holes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The tears ran along the sides of Tayo’s nose and off his chin; as they fell, the hollow inside his chest folded into the black hole, and he waited for the collapse into himself. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Stars in the galaxy that come too near this black hole will be torn apart by the difference in the gravitational forces on their near and far sides. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Low-mass black holes could form only if matter was compressed to enormous densities by very large external pressures. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z My feet began to slide across the carpet, and I realized that my avatar was being pulled toward the game room, as if a black hole had opened up somewhere in there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z "Like I said, we can't—" "So what are you planning to do with him? Keep him con-fined indefinitely, without justification, while you go crawling through black holes in cyberspace?" Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The approximations I used to derive the emission from black holes should work well when the black hole has a mass greater than a fraction of a gram. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Electrons and black holes are real things; physicists can’t simply will them away. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The crypt continued on into darkness ahead of them, but beyond this point the tombs were empty and unsealed; black holes waiting for their dead, waiting for him and his children. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When you think about it, the universe is nothing but this vast knackery of churning black holes and exploding stars, constantly freeing atoms that collect together and become something else, and something else again. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Would Maniac be sucked into that black hole like so much lint into a vacuum cleaner? Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Dunbar broke through and leaped up furiously on the soldier in white’s bed to see for himself, pressing his gleaming eye down hungrily against the tattered black hole in the shell of white bandages. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z So black were they that they seemed like black holes in the deep shade behind them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z As the matter spirals into the black hole, it would make the black hole rotate in the same direction, causing it to develop a magnetic field rather like that of the earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Astronomers have watched stars dance around an invisible partner; the stars’ motions reveal the presence of the black hole even if the black hole is not visible. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z When it gets to the point at which the virtual particle/antiparticle pair appeared together, it is scattered by the gravitational field into a particle traveling forward in time and escaping from the black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Matter falling into such a supermassive black hole would provide the only source of power great enough to explain the enormous amounts of energy that these objects are emitting. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Only when she saw the steep stairway disappearing into a bottomless black hole did her courage forsake her for a moment. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z There may be small black holes in the solar neighborhood. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My work in the 1970s focused on the black holes that can result from such stellar collapse and the intense gravitational fields around them. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The collapse of a star to form a black hole is rather like the later stages of the collapse of the whole universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And far from agreeing, the two sets of laws clash at the center of a black hole. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The two loops tremble, tear, and form one loop: a slightly more massive black hole. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Its boundary is called the event horizon and it coincides with the paths of light rays that just fail to escape from the black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, the singularities produced by gravitational collapse occur only in places, like black holes, where they are decently hidden from outside view by an event horizon. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s like she was the sun, and when she took off, the only thing left was a big black hole where she used to be. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Another way of seeing this is that the event horizon, the boundary of the black hole, is like the edge of a shadow—the shadow of impending doom. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if a black hole is invisible from the outside, its gravitational presence can be palpable. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If a black hole has entropy, then it ought also to have a temperature. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z With the right music Dad’s mood could escape his black hole and shine bright again like the aurora borealis. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z There are other models to explain Cygnus X-l that do not include a black hole, but they are all rather far-fetched. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One piece of his chest was missing—a clean black hole about the size of a bullet wound, right where his heart should’ve been. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Telescopes in space are the means for checking these shards and fragments of data that may be the spoor, the trail, of the legendary black hole. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if the search for primordial black holes proves negative, as it seems it may, it will still give us important information about the very early stages of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His mouth had swollen into a shapeless cherry-colored mass with a black hole in the middle of it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But for working, I carried a .32, a .38 or a .45.1 saw how when the eyes stared at the big black hole, the faces fell slack and the mouths sagged open. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Big bangs and black holes and endless, endless Space. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Past the event horizon the pull of a black hole’s gravity is so strong—and space is so curved—that nothing can escape, not even light. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A helpful way to understand black holes is to think about the curvature of space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His head was wrapped in a flour sack with a black hole for a mouth and a long trunk for a nose. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z A black hole opened up in the centre of the room and swallowed me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew Joey and I were both helplessly being sucked into a black hole of Joey Cosentino’s niceness. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z One cannot, of course, immediately conclude that the companion is a black hole: it might merely be a star that is too faint to be seen. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea of radiation from black holes was the first example of a prediction that depended in an essential way on both the great theories of this century, general relativity and quantum mechanics. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z How could we hope to detect a black hole, as by its very definition it does not emit any light? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z So I went on my zigzag way across the common, thinking about time, black holes, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and storm warnings. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z If you imagine a black hole as a string, no longer do objects fall through a rip in the fabric of space-time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But since gravity would draw primordial black holes toward any matter, they should be much more common in and around galaxies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She wears a flowered dress with a pinafore and her mouth gapes, a toothless black hole. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z To enter them, we would somehow have to penetrate a fourth physical dimension—not an easy undertaking, surely, but perhaps a black hole would provide a way. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, if a black hole is spinning or has an electric charge, mathematicians have calculated that the singularity is not a point—a pinpoint hole in space-time—but a ring. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As the earth's core is devoured by the black hole, the resulting radiation vaporizes the outer layers of the planet and expels them, and all life, into space. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Some people never admit that they are wrong and continue to find new, and often mutually inconsistent, arguments to support their case—as Eddington did in opposing black hole theory. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They convinced me that, according to the quantum mechanical uncertainty principle, rotating black holes should create and emit particles. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Only if the early universe was very smooth and uniform, with a high pressure, can one explain the absence of observable numbers of primordial black holes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Primordial black holes with initial masses less than this figure would already have completely evaporated, but those with slightly greater masses would still be emitting radiation in the form of X rays and gamma rays. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A zero in the other great modern theory—relativity—creates another paradox: the infinite nothing of the black hole. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The garden could only be reached through a dark, covered alley, which at first glance looked like little more than a black hole between the Casa Spavento and the neighboring house. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z But they are all too far away and therefore too difficult to observe to provide conclusive evidence of black holes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z How is it possible that a black hole appears to emit particles when we know that nothing can escape from within its event horizon? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But maybe black holes weren’t the monsters we made them out to be. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z And that opens up a black hole in the pit of my stomach. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z It wasn’t the warm darkness that the spirits in the club had been—more of a void, like she was looking into the depths of a black hole. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Two squares lined with water draining into a smaller black hole. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z We also now have evidence for several other black holes in systems like Cygnus X-l in our galaxy and in two neighboring galaxies called the Magellanic Clouds. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In Einstein’s theory of general relativity, a zero became a black hole, a monstrous star that swallows entire suns. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But if the Cosmos is closed and light cannot escape from it, then it may be perfectly correct to describe the universe as a black hole. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I know I stared into the deep black hole in that glinting barrel. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Eventually, the star would be so dim that it could no longer be seen from the spaceship: all that would be left would be a black hole in space. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The zero of a black hole is a singularity, an open wound in the fabric of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This region is what we now call a black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad explained light-years and black holes and quasars and told us about the special qualities of Betelgeuse, Rigel, and Venus. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It is at the zero hour of the big bang and the ground zero of the black hole that the mathematical equations that describe our world stop making sense. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But scientists can give black holes and electrons an extra dimension. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Finally,” Ripred said, and slid into the black hole of the tunnel. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the zeros of black holes—singularities—look like unlikely candidates in the short term. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z We could look for the gamma rays that the primordial black holes emit during most of their lifetime. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He just sat there staring at pictures of black holes. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z When the density and gravity become sufficiently high, the black hole winks out and disappears from our universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So if disorder were to decrease in the contracting phase of the universe, one might also expect it to decrease inside a black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “And I’d love to continue our conversation about Einstein’s theories, like how black holes make orbiting matter wobble.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Normally, the energy of the particle is still positive, but the gravitational field inside a black hole is so strong that even a real particle can have negative energy there. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At that date there was no precise definition of which points in space-time lay inside a black hole and which lay outside. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “What kind of black hole are you talking about?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z If the universe is destined to go on expanding forever, the temperature of the microwave radiation will eventually decrease to less than that of such a black hole, which will then begin to lose mass. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The existence of radiation from black holes seems to imply that gravitational collapse is not as final and irreversible as we once thought. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite this, I had a bet with Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology that in fact Cygnus X-l does not contain a black hole! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z However, this background could have been, and probably was, generated by processes other than primordial black holes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Can black holes serve as time machines, carrying us to the remote past or the distant future? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Einstein’s equations also predicted something much more sinister: the black hole, a star so dense that nothing can escape its grasp, not even light. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But one human being flaring up into violence could open up a black hole, a maelstrom that pulled in the sky. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, the lower the mass of the black hole, the higher its temperature. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, at the very center of our galaxy, sits a supermassive black hole that weighs as much as two-and-a-half million suns. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z According to the Big Bang theory, the universe came into being in one single moment—a cosmic cataclysm that gave birth to black holes, brown dwarfs, matter and dark matter, energy and dark energy. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They had songs we could dance to at family parties, and ballads that could send you into a black hole of sadness. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The infinite zero of a black hole—mass crammed into zero space, curving space infinitely—punches a hole in the smooth rubber sheet. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I was afraid that if Bekenstein found out about it, he would use it as a further argument to support his ideas about the entropy of black holes, which I still did not like. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perfidy” was certainly the word that was in Despereaux's mind as the mice finally approached the narrow, steep stairs that led to the black hole of the dungeon. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z If Arp is right, the exotic mechanisms proposed to explain the energy source of distant quasars—supernova chain reactions, supermassive black holes and the like—would prove unnecessary. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She pressed her hand to her chest and felt her sorrow—the merciless density of it, like a black hole in her heart, swallowing the light. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Fears have been raised that in their enthusiasm scientists might inadvertently create a black hole or even something called "strange quarks," which could, theoretically, interact with other subatomic particles and propagate uncontrollably. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The only way to view a black hole’s singularity is to go beyond the event horizon and see for yourself. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The black hole’s gravitational pull was bad enough. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z So if we could determine how many primordial black holes there are now, we would learn a lot about the very early stages of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And if black holes were as varied as the objects that collapsed to form them, it might be very difficult to make any predictions about black holes in general. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, in a sense, we are still all doomed, even if we keep away from black holes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z However, the particular spectral lines observed are often characteristic of very thin, diffuse gas, and not the astonishingly high density that must prevail near black holes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though nature tries to shield the singularities of black holes, scientists know that black holes exist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But a more massive star, left, after its supernova phase, with, say, five times the Sun’s mass, has an even more remarkable fate reserved for it—its gravity will turn it into a black hole. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This limit means that primordial black holes could make up at most one millionth of the matter in the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d been stuck in that black hole of a cell for so long. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z This, however, would not release much more energy, so a crisis would occur, as was described in the chapter on black holes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I let myself feel the smallness and closeness of the closet pressing in on me, and I think about Sir Patrick Moore’s black hole trick, when he just vanished into thin air. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The total entropy of matter outside the black hole would go down. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, to the astonishment of many, including many astronomers, evidence was actually found for the existence of black holes in space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I cover my mouth, feel myself falling down that black hole we dug for ourselves. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Cosmos” is a stunning survey of our universe, starting with Earth, proceeding through its solar-system neighbors and circling outward into galaxies, black holes and, well, infinity and beyond, as Buzz Lightyear would say. 19 big holiday book gift ideas: mystery, history and local titles 2013-12-13T20:53:23Z Instead, he said, Hawking, who is best known for his work explaining the physics of black holes, has been surrounded by former students and built collaborative relationships with colleagues. Stephen Hawking honored at NYC science, arts gala 2010-06-03T01:15:00Z But there’s another way maths movies can confound the Boredom Equation, namely by leaving a black hole where the maths should be. Genius by numbers: why Hollywood maths movies don't add up 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z They visited observatories in ancient Estonian cities like Pärnu and Tartu, where Dr. Ozernoy would research astronomical phenomena like quasars and black holes. The Solar System Winked 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.” 12 Quotes That Perfectly Sum Up Stephen Hawking’s Life Philosophy 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z The solo, as described on Ms. Goh’s website, “falls in slow motion through black holes, plot holes and worm holes, only to arrive again exactly where we already were.” Dance in NYC This Week 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z I was sucked into the world as if I was in a black hole. 50 years of 2001: A Space Odyssey – how Kubrick's sci-fi 'changed the very form of cinema' 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z These stories have actually proved more accurate than the dominant wrapping-up-soon narrative, despite proceeding from the same factual black hole. The end of the Mueller investigation is near! No, really. Anytime now. 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z At the same time, he descends down a black hole of memories he'd just as soon forget — not least because the murdered man was a vicious playground bully, Macleod's implacable enemy, back in the day. New crime fiction: a trio of 'tartan noir' mysteries 2012-11-07T23:14:04Z The seams in the balloon form lines that lead to a black hole in the center of one orb. Monumental balloon by Anish Kapoor in Paris show 2011-05-11T12:33:13Z On Wednesday his story “Icarus at the Edge of Time,” about a boy who flies too close to a black hole, will be performed at the baroque United Palace Theater in Washington Heights. The World Science Festival Arrives in New York 2012-05-24T22:01:03Z Rather than just bleating, which drags you into that black hole of negation. Swandown: two men in a pedalo 2012-07-18T17:17:15Z “With real estate, with money, with sex. They are busy making circles around the black hole, it seems.” Los Angeles Is Becoming Paris Amid the Palms 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z The project's backers emphasize that when you donate money to the Non-Visible Museum, you're not just pitching cash down a black hole; in exchange for your pledge, you get a piece of art. James Franco's crazy new art project 2011-06-13T18:14:00Z She’s the gravity to our family, the black hole that our galaxy revolves around. A Marriage Filled With Heroes, Villains and Eight Years of Romance 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z The moment he walked into the room, it felt like a black hole sucking something out of me. Ellen Page: ‘Being out became more important than any movie’ 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z The paint is like light being sucked into a black hole in space, he said. Largest festival of disabled artists opens in DC 2010-06-08T22:30:00Z While film musicals are no longer seen as the financial black holes they were two decades ago, it was a difficult proposition. Is hit Hollywood film La La Land about to become a stage show? 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z He’s also working on a proposed a project for the Château La Coste vineyard in the South of France, a long mulled idea to carve “five black holes” in a small lake with silicon bronze. At 89, Robert Irwin finds beauty in the benign (and talks about the new artwork that's not for sale) 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Photograph: EPA A black hole is creation's end point, a one-way exit from the universe, an enclosed region of spacetime from which nothing can escape. Gravity's Engines: The Other Side of Black Holes - review 2012-12-12T07:00:00Z It encompasses this black hole of sound while also giving you a vivid picture of isolation. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sun Ra 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z “I pitched them an idea about a guy whose shadow comes to life and sucks people in like a black hole and kills them,” he recalls. Magazine Preview: The Dark Art of ?Breaking Bad? 2011-07-06T12:20:00Z But black holes fought on, and brought in all kinds of spectators. Black and light 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z “I went down a black hole and ended up watching all the Come Curious videos in one go,” Halksworth laughs. ‘If you’re going to watch porn, know it’s not real’: meet Britain's sex-positive influencers 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z He had roughly the same effect on the room that black holes are said to have on their surrounding star fields. Haneke and Tarantino make odd couple in race for Oscars screenplay glory 2013-02-07T15:22:00Z Even a brief silence felt somehow gravity-defying, as though we were accelerating into a black hole that sucked up sound along with light and matter. The craziest opera yet: Gerald Barry's 'Alice's Adventures' 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Spaceships can have black holes at their core. Review: ‘Lightless,’ About the Bratty Machine on a Spaceflight 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z “To see the stuff going down the tubes, so to speak, to see it firsthand. The mystique of black holes in the community is very substantial. That mystique is going to be made more real.” Scientists reveal the first image of a supermassive black hole 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z There are no 'black holes' and there is no missing information. Channel 4's Islam film sparks row 2012-09-03T11:59:06Z The physics and the very concept of black holes are daunting for nonscientists to understand, but Levin clearly explains the crucial role they play in galactic formation. New & Noteworthy, From Astrophysics to Reading Nabokov 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Like all good Amandas, Potter’s is a pitiable black hole, unable to rein herself in and thereby spare her progeny her debilitating anxieties. A “Menagerie” of real feeling 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Perhaps you and “Dan” are drawn to one another because you share this vacuum-space where your mutual impulses are like a narcissistic black hole, swallowing up all the other people in your lives. Perspective | Ask Amy: Not-quite-divorced couple enjoys ‘meeting up’ 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z “El Angel” seems expressly designed to offer no insight — only an invitation to gaze into a terrifying black hole. ‘El Angel’ Review: Tracing a Sociopath’s Destiny 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z The first image is of a black hole in a galaxy called M87 that is about 54 million light-years from Earth. Scientists reveal the first image of a supermassive black hole 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z It was January 2015 when Lipska reached out to turn on her work computer and something peculiar happened: Her right hand disappeared into a kind of black hole. She made a career out of studying the brain. Then hers veered off course. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Falling is the one where the Earthlings' spacecraft breaches the black hole, and the Other Side would suit the closing credits. New band of the day - Woodkid (No 1,437) 2013-01-23T17:08:03Z Georges’ life has become blanketed with stars — black holes of misery — even as Anne’s has gone blank. Michael Haneke's Poignant Amour: The Flowers and the Stars 2012-05-21T18:43:58Z And the entire complex feels like a giant black hole, sucking the life out of what should be a vibrant district, bounded by a major arts center, an urban university and the Mall. A new front door opens up an insular enclave at State Department 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Eventually the Milky Way galaxy will fall into a black hole. Just a Few Billion Years Left to Go 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Ultimately, “Shock and Awe’s” examination of the glam era doesn’t solve the mystery of who David Bowie was, or begin to fill the cultural black hole left by his death. Was glam any different from pop? Simon Reynolds has the answer in 'Shock and Awe' 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Taken together they're the closest any of us may come to knowing what it's like to pass through a black hole and emerge into a cheerier existence. We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z This kind of frustration was both spirit and subject of the regrettable parable “Don’t Look Up,” in which astronomers’ warnings about an approaching comet were swallowed in the black hole of 24-hour media. ‘Extrapolations’ and the Peril of Climate Cringe 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z The finishing touch is a gaping black hole in the middle that looks like the aftermath of a giant explosion inside. Special Report: Decorative Arts: The Revival of the Artisan 2011-10-27T11:30:10Z I had no intimation it might be the sudden brilliance of a star before it vanishes in a black hole. Will Waterstone's have a significant future selling books in Britain? 2012-12-21T22:54:01Z Some face their hurdles with quiet stoicism, concentration sucking up sound like a black hole. In Maryland’s Strongman competition, lifting, grunting and the ol’ heave-ho I very much liked Bunny Christie’s design, elegantly lit by Jon Clark, suggestive of a gaping bleak, black hole in which anything is possible, given the impossible mess we are making of life on Earth. Theater Review: In London, Climate Change Comes to the Stage 2011-02-08T12:30:07Z Even with an EMF, the afterlife is a black hole that you can’t really access. “Is there an afterlife?” Ghost-hunting at my grandmother’s house 2014-02-02T11:59:00Z It would be possible to communicate to Earth from within a black hole. What 'Interstellar' Got Right and Wrong About Science 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Two others — the colliding black holes and a sci-fi adventure featuring actor Michael Ironside and some creepy aliens — were created with computer animation and the Unreal video-game engine, respectively. Vulcan’s Holodome exhibit at MoPOP lets groups share an ‘immersive reality’ experience 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z As the doe-eyed boy Icarus flew towards infinity, so rapid string figurations were offset by expansive slow brass melodies, a reflection, maybe, of the notion of time moving slower as you approach a black hole. I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky; Icarus at the Edge of Time; Don Giovanni 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z In talking to Mr. McCombs, the black hole assumes its own rules. Cass McCombs: Imagine Beckett as a Cranky Singer-Songwriter 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Known for its dynamic extremes, ranging from “pppp” to “ffff” — the quietest to the loudest — with little in between, her works have been admiringly likened to black holes, lasers and radiation burns. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z In that case, scientists witnessed just one or two orbits of the black holes around each other but here they were able to track the objects’ final 27 orbits before they crashed. Black holes are colliding: Scientists confirm more ripples in spacetime 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z When a particle falls into a black hole, the fact that it’s falling creates another form of negative energy. What 'Interstellar' Got Right and Wrong About Science 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z But it is in showing the application of that intelligence that “The Theory of Everything” tumbles into a black hole of biopic banality. In ‘The Theory of Everything,’ Stephen Hawking’s Home Life 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z “Part of our magazine’s mission is to show people how the world works – whether it’s black holes, evolution, viruses, or systemic racism,” Helmuth said. Science mag makes first endorsement in 175 years, taps Biden 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z In a touching finale scene, Hopper finally tells Eleven about his "girl" adding the cryptic explanation that the black hole that is his sad existence "got her." Our Biggest Questions After the 'Stranger Things' Season 2 Finale 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Fueling the theory that something supernatural happened, Hopper puts it this way to Eleven in the season 2 finale: "she left us" because the black hole that he is "got her." 9 Tiny Details You Missed in 'Stranger Things' Season 2 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z The profits have enabled him, he says, to sink more than $350 million into Bigelow Aerospace, “my own real black hole,” as he put it in recent phone interviews. Can Robert Bigelow (and the Rest of Us) Survive Death? 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z The facility has been designed as a prison, a holding cell for death-row inmates enrolled in a program through which they conduct perilous black hole explorations in exchange for commuted sentences. The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: No 8 – High Life 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z As one black hole after another vanishes the universe loses "information". Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe by Roger Penrose ? review 2010-10-15T23:14:00Z Or the time he suggested a black hole might be responsible for the disappearance of flight MH370? Is CNN's Don Lemon the most aptly named man on TV? 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z In the case of those two black holes, the waves eventually reached Earth, 1.3 billion light-years from their source. What are gravitational waves? Ripples across the universe. 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z As “-io” progresses, Fohr takes our dour times and turns those feelings inside out, finding triumph amid despondency, leaning heavily into her imagery of exploding stars and black holes. Circuit des Yeux battles through grief to create an artistic triumph 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z In the run-up to a show, the studio is kind of like a black hole and it can be really hard to get away. Simone Rocha on the Importance of Comfortable Shoes 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Like an electric dynamo, this black hole spins and pumps energy out through cable-like magnetic field lines into the chaotic gas whipping around it. Gravity's Engines: The Other Side of Black Holes - review 2012-12-12T07:00:00Z Just two months ago, scientists announced that they had heard, for the very first time, the sound of two black holes colliding in outer space. Review: ‘Black Hole Blues’ Recounts the Quest to Find the Cosmic Kazoo 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z These are ballots that fell into a kind of black hole of election law. A month later, this New York City primary is still a train wreck and a warning to us all 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z People used the ashtrays on the seminar tables, but in the hallways—despite some standing ashtrays—the gray industrial carpeting was speckled with black holes where people had ground out their cigarettes with their shoes. My Life in Smoke 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z To celebrate, the authors are getting together to discuss astronomy and what fascinates them: planets, black holes and even time travel. Around Town for Oct. 21-27 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Yet Shannon’s halting, withdrawn presence in Michael Maren’s “A Little White Lie,” an otherwise atrocious literary farce, burns an unpredictable black hole in the movie’s froth of clichéd exchanges and corny musical cues. ‘A Little White Lie’ Review: The Not-So-Great Pretender 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Despite this, A. O. Scott, in his review for The New York Times, wrote that the film “tumbles into a black hole of biopic banality.” What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Miss Universe’ and ‘Rocky’ 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z You’re a mute in a black hole, hearing nothing but braying in your head. “Your manuscript is not a good fit”: How “we need diverse books” can move beyond wishful thinking 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Consider, for example, the gravitational forces acting on a neutron star, an ultradense object one step from total collapse into a singularity or black hole. Gravity's Engines: The Other Side of Black Holes - review 2012-12-12T07:00:00Z The blurred speck on their screen was apparently a black hole at the centre of our galaxy that measures 44 million km across. TV review: Horizon: Seeing Stars; Safebreakers and Only Connect 2011-08-15T21:00:02Z This is that rare tale that lures us into a metaphysical black hole: the nature of identity that eludes conclusion. As a house burns, its residents are sustained by memories in ‘Night of Fire’ 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Hawking is known for his theories on black holes and what is now known has Hawking radiation. Stephen Hawking wants to play a “baddie” in a James Bond movie 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z When two such cultural hyper-objects meet, they’re bound to create a black hole strong enough to suck in and warp just about anything around them. Shakespeare Conquers America! Starring Ulysses S. Grant as Desdemona 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z She produced an album with a record label, but felt it wasn’t entirely true to her original sound, and “went into a little black hole for a while”. ‘I don’t know if I’ll ever get over it’: how it feels to make a TV flop 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z But then, imagine someone finds a simple way to make black holes or antimatter using common materials and wall current? How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z Like them, she sees, or creates through metaphor, correspondences across disparate fields, frames of reference, states of being — between cosmos and mind, or astronomy and history, black holes and the absences in stories. Democracy’s Fierce Defender 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Long before I reached the end of this dim comedy, I was eager to find a black hole. ‘How to Tell Toledo From the Night Sky,’ by Lydia Netzer Not even a black hole can take it all away, Kentridge has concluded. When refusing the hour saves the day 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z The same cheesy cosmic light was used as the show disappeared into its own black hole. Money; Lost; Damages 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z Though the shy Caltech professor was far more comfortable contemplating black holes and other imponderables than he was navigating the world of dating, he said yes. Kip Thorne, the scientist who slipped through a wormhole 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z I believe cucumbers are demonic, the black hole of the food world, infusing everything close by with their evil cucumber-ness. Johnny Marr: ‘When the Smiths went to No 1, we were surviving off crisps, chocolate and Coca-Cola’ 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z But his genius — the ability to divine formulas seemingly from thin air that, a century later, are informing computer development, economics and the study of black holes — has long captivated academics and artists alike. A Math Biopic, With Dev Patel, Applies a Different Calculus 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z For grief is the black hole that is left in our lives when we lose someone irreplaceable – a child, a parent, a lover. Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala – review 2013-04-03T07:00:01Z You could easily picture the stumped writers of “Lost,” helpless in the face of an ever-growing pile of unsolved mysteries, madly skimming Wikipedia entries on space-time geometries and black holes. Riff: ?Clues That Lead to More Clues That Add Up to Nothing? 2011-12-16T17:03:47Z Jail and prison are, notoriously, black holes for human time and the continuum of culture which comes with it. A New Chapter in a Double-Murder Case 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z Frustrated at the knowledge that he himself will never reach his destination, which still lies generations in the future, Icarus is easily distracted when the ship nears a black hole. Music Review: World Science Festival Opens at Alice Tully Hall 2010-06-03T22:59:00Z His scientific breakthroughs, including discoveries about black holes, are documented, as are his struggles with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and family life. What’s on TV Thursday: March Madness and ‘How to Get Away With Murder’ 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Werner Benger, a researcher at Louisiana State University who has studied black holes, was brought in to consult on a theoretical look. Images From ‘Voyage of Time,’ Explained 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z He also questioned where and when the Koran was written and said there was an historical "black hole" surrounding Islam's beginnings. Channel 4's Islam film sparks row 2012-09-03T11:59:06Z It is a powerfully conflicted picture, a black hole of ominous and disturbing proportions framed in an innocuous image of sweetness and light. No closure after Appomattox 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z The black hole formed near the beginning of time, just nine hundred million years after the Big Bang. Liu Cixin Is China’s Answer to Arthur C. Clarke 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z “I didn’t quite realize how big a black hole I was in — in terms of emotions — in that time period,” Mr. Butler said. Meeting a Political Opponent, Finding a Spouse 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Based in Charleston, S.C., it follows a young lawyer’s descent into a black hole of police corruption. Plenty of new shows to check out this spring and summer 2014-04-25T18:58:31Z A gigantic, near-historic nothing; a black hole of embarrassment for the two stars. Madagascar 3 Smashes Cruise's Rock, Shames Sandler's Boy 2012-06-17T21:29:30Z Without actual photographs of black holes, the filmmakers relied on scientists’ understanding of how they affect matter. Images From ‘Voyage of Time,’ Explained 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z "I think it's hilarious what happens to you when you fall into a black hole," said Tyson, without irony. Neil deGrasse Tyson's theory: 'StarTalk' can make science hip 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z It is not a black hole of grief. The Wild, Remarkable Sex Scenes of Lidia Yuknavitch 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z In America’s minutely recorded assassination chronicles, it remains a black hole. Robert F. Kennedy’s final flight: The storied journey of the ride from California to New York 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z “Haydn begins with the concept of a black hole, compression — and then light, explosion,” Mr. Padrissa said in an interview. Balloons, iPads, Aquarium: A Conductor Creates a ‘Creation’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The Battle of Anghiari is the black hole at the centre of art history's swirling stars. Leonardo da Vinci's Battle of Anghiari draws me into a black hole 2010-09-23T14:33:00Z A big problem for dealers who specialize in this period, Mr. Zarug said in an interview, is that the provenance of much Russian avant-garde art is “a black hole.” Unknown or Unreal? The Shadow on Some Russian Avant-Garde Art 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z “THERE is a black hole at the heart of biology.” Heart of the matter 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z He’s now 72 and one of the foremost physicists alive — a professor at the University of Cambridge, an investigator of black holes, and the author of the bestselling book, A Brief History of Time. 12 Quotes That Perfectly Sum Up Stephen Hawking’s Life Philosophy 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Chester claims that he cannot start preaching because “there’s a big black hole in the floor in front of me,” and also because he has lost his inspiration. Theater Review: ‘Storefront Church,’ by John Patrick Shanley 2012-06-12T02:00:13Z The world needs saving again, apparently from a threat that involves what looks like a black hole hovering over the Arctic. Review: ‘Heroes Reborn’ Finds Its Superhumans Again Fighting to Save the World and Themselves 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Shannon, though, is the film’s center of gravity — its supernova, its black hole, its avatar of cosmic disorder. In ‘99 Homes,’ a Man Buffeted and Then Manipulated in Florida’s Foreclosure Disaster 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The answer: Each spacecraft needed to generate its own black hole. ‘Foundation’ based on Asimov’s work thinks big — galaxy big 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z In just 88 pages, he explores mind-bending topics in physics, like gravitational waves, the heat of black holes and quantum gravity. 12 New Books We’re Reading This Summer (and 6 Not So New) 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z “We were looking at some pretty significant revenue black holes,” he said. It’s Van-demonium on Those Roads! 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z In an video from Business Insider Tyson explains black holes, dimensions, time and “Interstellar.” Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the science behind the ending of “Interstellar” 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z The crash produced a new black hole containing 21 times the mass of the sun—the missing mass from the parent black holes was converted to energy in the form of gravitational waves. Black holes are colliding: Scientists confirm more ripples in spacetime 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z In Opposed Positions, both the family and the black hole are skilfully managed. Gwendoline Riley: 'The buck stops here? I've got bad blood' ? interview 2012-05-18T10:45:03Z Many places accept things which then go into a black hole.” Archive of the American Songbook Finds a New Home in the Heartland 2011-02-05T00:03:28Z The nanny, Louise, is the central enigma of Slimani’s novel — a human black hole who swirls into the family’s living room one day and relentlessly pulls in and extinguishes the light in everyone’s lives. Review | Worried about your nanny? Here’s a novel in which your worst nightmare is realized. 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Terms like “black hole,” and other dichotomies of light and dark. The Many Layers of Lorna Simpson 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The city argues that, as the bridge is a black hole of maintenance costs, it should be quickly replaced. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-08-19T14:34:45Z His death really hurts, it leaves a black hole. Cy Twombly - an appreciation: Paintings about sex and death 2011-07-05T23:01:41Z But a black hole in her memory protects some trauma she doesn’t want to touch, its dreadful shadow looming ever larger as the book goes on. From Missing Persons to Mistaken Identities, Books About Seeing and Being Seen 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z But it’s this past spring and summer that remains a sticky black hole of sickness. My year of anxiety: How my worries took control, and how I’m taking it back 2014-01-26T21:00:00Z The navy one, Whitmore says, “created a big black hole in the middle of the room.” Secrets of home stagers: Six easy fixes to make you like your house better Pausing only to flash an ironic smile, she switched to English and fired back with a line from Woody Allen: “Today, I’m a star; tomorrow, I’m a black hole.” Marina Abramovic Comes Home, and Comes Clean 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z It would be possible to survive the leap into the black hole from which you hope to do your communicating in the first place. What 'Interstellar' Got Right and Wrong About Science 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z It touched on topics ranging from black holes to climate change, consistently pulling in more than 3 million viewers in the U.S. each week. After One Brief Season, Cosmos Makes Its Final Voyage 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z At the end one dancer after another hurtles back through those flaps as if sucked into a black hole in space. Merce Cunningham’s Multifaceted Mirror, Held Up to Nature 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Doing the collecting is an international collaboration known as the Event Horizon Telescope, which will use this data to achieve a simple goal: to take a picture of a black hole. From Black Holes to Breakfast, Three Books Show How Einstein’s Legacy Lives On 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z We’re still in a black hole of not knowing very much about the sexual health and mechanisms of half the population. The search for the multiple orgasm - does it really exist? 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z A dark pigment circle creates the illusion of a black hole opening up in the floor. Wax and mirrors: Anish Kapoor opens show in Berlin 2013-05-17T12:03:10Z In depicting such “rough stuff” as Cobain’s suicide, the mural shows Nirvana’s creative force standing with his back to the viewer — and facing a black hole. Krist Novoselic returns to Aberdeen for Nirvana mural dedication 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Or is he directing our attention toward a black hole that sits in the middle of life? | 'Into the Abyss': ?Into the Abyss,? by Werner Herzog - Review 2011-11-10T22:23:18Z Or micro black holes, colliding with the Earth and gobbling us from within. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z Living far from his family and divorced from a woman he used to love, he had a black hole in his chest so evident I could already feel its gravity trying to pull me in. Two Wrongs Don’t Make Mr. Right 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z “Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don’t really understand its full significance.” How do you top ‘Hamilton’? Author Ron Chernow is about to find out. 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z She is manipulative and scary, an endlessly needy black hole. ArtsBeat: A New Character, and a New Crazy, on ‘Girls’ 2014-01-20T03:30:15Z He’s traveling on a spaceship as part of a small criminal crew, bound for a black hole in deep space. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘High Life’ and the iHeartRadio Music Festival 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z When something you care about gets sucked into this journalism black hole, it can be a little bit depressing. Arcade Fire: Dressing up and falling over 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z The traditionally animated sailors face the realistically rendered fiery supernova as it becomes a black hole for an action-packed set piece full of interplanetary explosions. ‘Treasure Planet’ at 20: Disney’s Failed Space Odyssey Deserved to Soar 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z You could say that it's easy to laugh at the tropes of SF, but for a comedy writer that way lies the black hole of failure. Douglas Adams is still the king of comic science fiction 2013-03-11T12:55:34Z David, we come to realize, is not the carefree American tripping around the world on a lark; he’s struggling to escape the gravitational pull of a black hole of grief back home. ‘No. 4 Imperial Lane’: A powerful elegy for lost love and lost empire 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z In his novels, a black hole with the mass of twelve billion suns is the sort of thing that Chinese engineers might build. Liu Cixin Is China’s Answer to Arthur C. Clarke 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z In 2008 the Milky Way’s very own super black hole – Sagittarius A* – was confirmed after a sixteen-year hunt with telescopes in Chile. Listen up, Marco Rubio!: Science lessons for the tea party 2012-11-25T19:00:00Z You can avoid the emotional black hole by always checking in with yourself and being honest in your statements: “That makes me uncomfortable.” Perspective | Ask Amy: Grieving friend wants practical help 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z I'm just not sure whether I'm ready to do that, and I can't trust myself not to get sucked in to the emotional black hole that is our relationship. Perspective | Ask Amy: Grieving friend wants practical help 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z It exerts the gravitational pull of a black hole that sucks everything in and gives nothing back. Review: In ‘The Saviour,’ Past Trauma Is Very Much Present 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z The very idea of taking a picture of a black hole seems absurd, not just quixotic but outright impossible. From Black Holes to Breakfast, Three Books Show How Einstein’s Legacy Lives On 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Like most smartwatches, it’s in sleep mode when resting to save power, leaving the impression of a big black hole on your arm, which I still find visually problematic. Reviewing Olio, the Latest Entrant in the Smartwatch Sweepstakes 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Maybe they’d collide and swallow one another in a black hole. Go ahead, believe in romance: It will make you a happier, more committed partner 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z The further the show ventures from the black holes of charm and personality that constitute its ostensible dramatic core, the better it is. How to re-watch “Entourage” 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z “That allows for better tests of general relativity and better characterization of the black holes’ parameters,” González says. Black holes are colliding: Scientists confirm more ripples in spacetime 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Doctors today often complain of working in an occupational black hole in which patient encounters are compressed into smaller and smaller space and time. A Doctor Argues That Her Profession Needs to Slow Down, Stat 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z This black hole is the central menace in “Icarus at the Edge of Time,” a new musical work by based on a story by Brian Greene, the physicist and festival co-founder. At World Science Festival, Cosmos and Culture Converge 2010-05-30T21:16:00Z This is all especially disappointing because black holes are fascinating, and because Impey knows so much about them. From Black Holes to Breakfast, Three Books Show How Einstein’s Legacy Lives On 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z The celestial monstrosity absorbs all but a remnant of light, leaving a vague, distorted suggestion of what once was on the horizon of the black hole. When refusing the hour saves the day 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z I couldn’t imagine how we’d fit alongside each other, but I pressed on, only to find myself in a black hole. The Rockies, the Alps, the Caucasus? Georgia Plans for the Future 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z The plan is regarded by senior figures within the party as a necessary step towards filling a forecasted £30bn black hole in the NHS's finances over the next five years. NHS tax is floated by Liberal Democrats to fill £30bn hole 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Icarus avoids falling into the black hole, but when he runs thousands of years have gone by in what to him were a few minutes. At World Science Festival, Cosmos and Culture Converge 2010-05-30T21:16:00Z These boffins are looking for peculiarities of light that will hopefully unearth a black hole – and to do so they're using the Very Large Telescope, or VLT. TV highlights 15/08/2011 2011-08-14T20:59:00Z Concision was all, with the stories compressed into a black hole of text. The First TIME 2013-03-01T13:00:58Z My girlfriends and I, we always remind each other: "Hey, we're just floating on a planet in the sky right now, okay? There's a black hole somewhere. We're only here because of gravity." "Resident Alien" star Sara Tomko on otherness and relationships: "It's so hard to be human 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z Last week, a team of astronomers at Peking University announced the discovery of a gigantic black hole with a mass equivalent to twelve billion suns. Liu Cixin Is China’s Answer to Arthur C. Clarke 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Instead he offers just enough detail to understand why the women call the place “a stab wound,” “a black hole,” “an earthquake of the soul” and to help us feel those tremors. Review: ‘Villa’ Dramatizes a Plot of Chilean Land With a Dark Past 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z In this futuristic version, adapted from the children’s book of the same title by the physicist Brian Greene, the hero is a 14-year-old boy on a spacecraft who decides to explore a black hole. Spare Times — For Children for May 25-31 2012-05-24T22:25:26Z Well, there are solar superflares, supernovae, and giant black holes that might veer past our sun. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z Alien, in its gradual, threatening way, took us back to the idea of some eternal war between us and them, mankind and the black hole. Alien: Story of a scene 2010-10-21T10:51:00Z It’s as if the gifts disappear into a black hole. Social Q’s : Social Q’s — Ingrates and Clumsy Guests 2012-12-27T18:23:12Z The grail is uncovered and the mess clears away, shooting an effigy of Jesus into the air and then a bright light as if shining through a black hole. Geneva's 'Parsifal' ends in embrace 2010-03-19T15:20:00Z That is how black holes got their name: Practically invisible, they seem to be a patch of empty space in the universe. What are gravitational waves? Ripples across the universe. 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z They used measurements of infra-red light because there is so much stellar dust between the black hole and us, 27,000 light years away. Listen up, Marco Rubio!: Science lessons for the tea party 2012-11-25T19:00:00Z Deficits have been mounting since 2003, a situation that has led some to call the opera’s new logo of a black dot “the black hole.” How People?s Opera Orchestrated Its Peril 2011-06-15T13:37:18Z But Washington DC is a black hole of heavy congestion, its dark tentacles probing deep into the neighboring states. Taking a road trip this summer? Enjoy America's crumbling infrastructure 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z The composition began with recordings of gravitational waves produced by two colliding black holes, captured by an observatory operated by MIT and Caltech. Review | William Basinski’s tranquil tunes stirred listeners — and got a standing ovation — at U Street Music Hall 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z It contrasted with the summer heat, as water — which has shaped so much of this hidden world — drizzled down in front of the earthbound black hole. Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky’s underground rock star 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z They both transcend their bodies, changing form until they’re ultimately transformed into planets talking in space, hovering near a black hole. For Mother’s Day, a Healing Meditation on Mortality 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z It’s just constantly raising expectations for myself to the point where inevitably I must surely collapse under my own mass and become some sort of creative black hole, that sucks everything into it. Alan Moore Digs Up 'Unearthing' and Lays His Comics Career to Rest 2010-07-26T22:05:00Z A description of black holes as waltzing through space naturally leads to shots of a ballroom full of swirling dancers. Your next box set: Through the Wormhole 2011-07-14T18:59:01Z Meanwhile throughout the week visitors to the Broad Street Ballroom in Lower Manhattan can hear what black holes might sound like as they are being formed. At World Science Festival, Cosmos and Culture Converge 2010-05-30T21:16:00Z “We gave movement to the black hole itself to make sure it felt dimensional,” Mr. Glass said. Images From ‘Voyage of Time,’ Explained 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z After all, severe autism repels language, turns it chaotic or, in the case of autistic mutism, simply absorbs it wholesale, as a black hole does light. In ‘Shtum,’ parents wreck their home to find a better one for their autistic son 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z “It’s not the black hole that it was,” he said. Javits Center Plans Are Deflating for Architects 2012-01-22T21:28:52Z On the subject of black holes, no one ends up in one blacker or more chasmic than Don Giovanni, Mozart's rake who is swallowed up by hell. I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky; Icarus at the Edge of Time; Don Giovanni 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z The encyclopedia on my doorstep, the black hole of Google, the wives’ tale wisdom you can court from any office lunch room or Jamberry party, all dispenses the same wishy-wash nothing. Disneyland with my invisible guest 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z “We can feel how difficult it has been for this reserved scholar of early Christianity to enter the black hole of her feelings,” Mark Epstein writes in his review. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Death, like a black hole, distorts everything around it. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z Until an enormous drop of sunshine erupted on the edge of the black hole and grew bigger. My Husband Wore Really Tight Shorts to the Eclipse Party 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Written by Matthew Dabner and Mr. Edgerton’s brother, Joel, it turns a humdrum Down Under backwater into a black hole of haphazard crime and arbitrary punishment. | 'The Square': Sin and Comeuppance in Film Noir From Down Under 2010-04-09T01:45:00Z First drag your black hole across the universe to the place and time you'd like to work with. Michael Brooks's top 10 time travel books 2012-11-28T13:38:00Z In the marvelous Ramírez survey exhibition that inaugurates the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, on a gritty downtown street across from the Greyhound bus station, trains enter tunnels to nowhere, disappearing into black holes. The mystery of an artist only deepens: The remarkable drawings of Martín Ramírez at DTLA's new museum 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z When the two black holes combined, a huge amount of energy was released. What are gravitational waves? Ripples across the universe. 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Wormholes, black holes, the fifth dimension — what Thorne calls "the warped side of the universe" — play critical roles in the story of a last-ditch space-exploration mission to find a new home for humankind. Kip Thorne, the scientist who slipped through a wormhole 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z When the story opens, Irene has just used a revolutionary instrument in her laboratory to create a little black hole, an object with such a strong gravitational pull that no narrative logic can escape. ‘How to Tell Toledo From the Night Sky,’ by Lydia Netzer Depending on which European prognosticator one reads it's a black hole, a leprous pit, a basket case, a marxist junkspace. Calcutta: Two Years in the City by Amit Chaudhuri – review 2013-04-06T06:01:32Z Its dancers invade space like astronauts, then vanish into one black hole after another. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe in ?Biped? at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T22:49:13Z With a first-hand account of the Altamont catastrophe at its heart, sucking in light like a black hole, it is still the most brutally compelling book about rock'n'roll and its casualties ever written. Christmas gifts 2012: the best music books 2012-11-29T08:00:04Z During our interview, the actor erupts into a flurry of asides, from the discovery of two new black holes to her ardour for neuroscience. Miss Juneteenth star Nicole Beharie: ‘Black people are not monolithic’ 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z I think I assumed it would simply fall into the black hole of first novels. What happened next? A novel success 2010-12-27T08:00:38Z Now that he had become a father, he felt “a connection to the black hole of loss that everything orbits around.” Impossible to Stage? Multimedia Impresarios Take On Paul Auster 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z He spent a semester at Oxford University, where he focused on particle physics and space phenomena like black holes. Film: Cyberspace Gamble 2010-12-04T23:03:00Z And fans of Desmond, the castaway stuck typing in the same numerical sequence every 108 minutes, will appreciate the gag of the hamster in the exercise wheel that powers a black hole. 'Phineas and Ferb' will commemorate 'Lost's' 10th anniversary 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Most of us simply can’t bear to engage in any functional way with the black hole into which we are all inevitably headed. Our young son died suddenly. It’s hard to cope with people’s reactions | Mariella Frostrup 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z “We have seen what we thought was unseeable. We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole,” said Sheperd Doeleman of Harvard University. Scientists reveal the first image of a supermassive black hole 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z “Keeping my eyes on the red taillights of some distant car ahead, I felt the erotic thrill of that moment with Luc slowly drain from my system, leaving behind a big black hole.” A Recovering Sex and Porn Addict Tells All 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z For his 1977 museum show in Orange County, Eversley suggested that his series of black, white and gray mirrors alluded to the cosmological phenomena of black holes, white dwarfs and neutron stars. The Artist Who Throws Newton a Curve 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z We’ve seen what he’s seen, an endless, doomed pageant that keeps marching into the same black hole. Critic’s Notebook: Something Wicked This Way Runs 2013-07-08T21:17:36Z Am I looking up at a dome of light or down into a black hole? Oskar Fischinger: the wizard who angered Disney 2013-01-09T17:39:00Z Between the armies near Kiev in 1941 and the armchair in our apartment in the early 80s, a black hole slowly grew. My grandfather, who finally came back from the second world war in 1981 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z “I am especially fascinated by erasures and omissions, which seem to me to be strongly present in their apparent absence, like black holes, pulling the fabric of collective narrative out of shape,” she writes here. Democracy’s Fierce Defender 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z After the black hole of the event, she sees the city with different eyes. "It's not about the terrorists": "Revoir Paris" captures fragmented memories after mass shooting 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Taken together they're the closest any of us will come to knowing what it's like to pass through a black hole and emerge in a cheerier existence. We did Barbenheimer, the "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" double feature. You should too 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z Whitman’s Happening is being restaged at Pace this week, accompanied by a small show of related art works and the auction of 500 NFTs depicting imaginary planets and black holes. Party Like It’s 1959 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z One slip of the word "Macguffin" and a black hole might open up and swallow the entire movie. Guardians of the Galaxy first look review – a whip-smart space romp 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z High Life and Ad Astra both found their audiences this year, but this movie, far superior, unfortunately slipped into a black hole. The best movies of 2019 that you haven't seen 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z “He’s a crevice, a black hole, an unspecified danger, a relentless outbreak of the unknown in our overexposed world,” Ms. Pessl writes on the first page of “Night Film.” Books Of the Times: ‘Night Film’ Is Marisha Pessl’s New Novel 2013-08-14T20:32:22Z Suspended above the dome is a dark disc suggesting distant galaxies, or a black hole. 3 Artists Are Urged to Go Big. They Didn’t Hold Back. 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z I love to riff on the origin of the universe, black holes, space and time. Ladies Who Launch: Women Who Opened the Door to Space Exploration 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z With his latest Zoom play, “Incidental Moments of the Day,” he completes over the months of the shutdown an achingly poignant trilogy that maps out the existential black hole we seem to have fallen into. Review | Relief from Zoom sometimes comes in a box. A play in a box. 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z It’s one of the tools she’s using to prepare for the winter months and to stay out of what she describes as a black hole. Pandemic depression is about to collide with seasonal depression. Make a plan, experts say. 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z The image shows a black hole in the center of a giant elliptical galaxy known as M87. Perspective | The black hole image is beautiful and profound. It’s also very blurry. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Netflix fans cried foul, and of course that female director black hole remains hideously unfilled. A female director Oscar? Three ways to fix film awards season 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Trav S.D., who wrote the excellent history “Chain of Fools,” once described Laurel on screen as “completely vacant, like a beast of burden, like a black hole.” Imagining the Unhappy Life of Stan Laurel 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The Alphans, as the moonbase inhabitants were called, would encounter black holes, automated spaceships that were starting to feel lonely, and that old favourite: parallel universes. Space: 1999 – box set review 2013-04-11T14:00:02Z Some of these are spiral galaxies, and the only life we know about exists on the outer limb of one spiral galaxy with a relatively quiet black hole at its heart. Gravity's Engines: The Other Side of Black Holes - review 2012-12-12T07:00:00Z Muse's sound was made for arenas, stadiums and festivals, not bloated but just huge -- an awing super-massive black hole that sucks one into its gravity well of power. Jay-Z -- and even Beyonce -- rock Coachella fest 2010-04-19T01:41:00Z Schwarzschild had given the world its first glimpse of black holes. The Ecstasy of Scientific Discovery, and Its Agonizing Price 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z The moments creep along, then suddenly disappear into black holes, disregarding the rules of chronology. A Unique and Affecting Memoir Combines Grief and Mushrooms 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z This was more than 70 years before a single black hole had been identified. Gravity's Engines: The Other Side of Black Holes - review 2012-12-12T07:00:00Z The signal, a mere 20 milliseconds long, captured the moment when two black holes slammed together – a cataclysm that sent ripples through spacetime and onwards to Earth, where they made instruments chirp and scientists cheer. 2016's best bits: breakthroughs in science 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional — what a cranky guy would call correct — grammar. Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z When she aims polemically at certain of the sciences, or at modern and postmodern thought, her narratives create their own black holes. Democracy’s Fierce Defender 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z I wasn't spoilt for choice of maverick venues: much of the British live scene is an identikit haze of brewery-owned concerns and sponsored, expensive black holes. Pop music's mavericks: 'I might install speakers in my jacket' 2011-07-28T20:59:01Z It tells the story of a group of criminals who are offered a choice: die in prison, or embark on a one-way journey into space to explore a black hole. The most exciting films of 2018 by big-name directors 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Comfortingly, he reveals he thinks he's a black hole that sucks everything toward it and destroys it. Explaining Exactly What Happened at the End of 'Stranger Things 2' 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z It contains “the memory of the nation,” Mr. Ryden explained, adding that the theft “created black holes,” and that “money can’t compensate when you have black holes.” Swedish Royal Library Recovers Stolen 1597 Atlas in New York 2012-06-27T01:20:09Z Reilly begged TV writers "not to write the eulogy prematurely" for "Fringe," which is moving to Friday nights - usually a black hole in Fox's schedule. Fox: We want `House' and `Bones' back 2011-01-11T21:27:08Z If an author’s biography always casts some shadow on the work, here, the author is comparatively a total solar eclipse coupled with a supermassive black hole. ‘The Silkworm’ by J. K. Rowling, as Robert Galbraith 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z “I am a born-and-bred Londoner, but there is a black hole in my geography of this part of the city,” Piper explained. Along London’s ‘other river,’ an art walk brightens the scenery 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z And let’s say no black holes gobble the Earth. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z The craft foods area is a black hole. Jovan Adepo Gets Workout Tips From John Krasinski 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z The well appears to be a real one, not a metaphysical source of spiritual refreshment, but Dickinson's first stroke in the poem is to defamiliarise it, transform it into a kind of black hole. Poem of the week: What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson 2010-10-04T09:21:00Z “DGV” vibrates like a train and pushes forcibly ahead, yet this journey doesn’t take place in a tunnel; it’s more of a black hole. Dance Review: New York City Ballet in a Tribute to a Fast Train 2014-02-05T21:50:27Z That’s why you need to harness your rage, to find in it a red lesson rather than a black hole. What Should I Do About My Rage? 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Managers and coaches don’t want to say their players are “sucking like a Schwarzschild black hole.” Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Take me out to the Old. Word. Game. 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z It was about a black calculator in a black hole, and it counted the entire universe. The Russian Tom Clancy Is on the Front Lines for Real 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z For all your intelligence, energy, originality, strength of character, and overt cheerfulness, you risk becoming a black hole of self-defeating negativity. “The Intern” Is a Very Strange Workplace Fantasy 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z He’s a black hole of energy and positivity. In ‘Unstable,’ the Sins of the Father Are Comedy Gold 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z So how did I go from this moment of such promise to becoming the black hole of publishing? I’m a self-publishing failure 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z With data gathered by eight radio telescopes around the world, astronomers captured a picture of the hot, shadowy edges of a supermassive black hole. Scientists reveal the first image of a supermassive black hole 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z David Lynch Double Bill Whether you see David Lynch as the North Star or the black hole in the Hollywood firmament depends on your taste. Weekend Miser: David Lynch Double Bill in Queens 2012-10-11T21:08:28Z When the ship has to detour around an uncharted black hole, Icarus, a genius pilot and navigator, decides to go take a close look at it. At World Science Festival, Cosmos and Culture Converge 2010-05-30T21:16:00Z Specifically, that would be their respective and elusive pasts, their equally muddled presents and, for the husband, a black hole of a future. At the London Theater, a Fear of the Foreign and Familiar 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z The first image of a black hole was just released, and it’s being celebrated around the world as a triumph of science and more evidence of the great march of human progress. Perspective | The black hole image is beautiful and profound. It’s also very blurry. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z He told me, “I would put a big, black hole in the ground, because I feel nothing for this country but darkness and emptiness.” West Point on Memorial Day: Race, one graduation photo, and the meaning of America 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z It contains universes unto itself, full of swirling chiffon and lamé, baseball caps and nerdy glasses, whole star systems of sequins and suits, plus random philosophical black holes into which everything occasionally gets sucked. Gucci Gives New Meaning to the Contemporary Obsession With Stars 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z You saw the part where Fred jumps into the black hole, right? “I like that spot where fear and laughter converge”: Carrie Brownstein on how “Portlandia” takes on aging, “Transparent” and channeling Sleater-Kinney on set 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The mysteries of time are bound up in the great unknowns of the body and universe, from consciousness to black holes. In Search of Time Lost and Newly Found 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z The liberating, asocial darkness of 's wild woods intensifies in A Passage to India with the "black holes" of rock in the Marabar hills. Laurence Scott: rereading Maurice by EM Forster 2013-07-05T10:00:01Z Since information is linked to entropy, the entropy of the universe decreases with the demise of each black hole. Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe by Roger Penrose ? review 2010-10-15T23:14:00Z Classical music has long been a kind of black hole in the streaming universe. The Anxious Ease of Apple Music 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Suffering from chronic cabin fever, Icarus defies his father's warning and takes a ride to the edge of a black hole, just to prove that he can. Of the spheres 2010-07-02T23:05:00Z Ditch the timer and put a few grains in your mouth: They should “taste nutty-sweet, a little sharp, a little sour; dense and dark, yet strangely wholesome — like a risotto in a black hole.” Review | Cooking can be therapeutic. For Ella Risbridger, it saved her life. 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z There are still ideas to test, from Einstein’s gravity waves—travelling ripples that stretch and squash space itself—to the radiation that Stephen Hawking predicted when he suggested “black holes ain’t so black”. Black and light 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Entropy is a big concept in information theory and black holes, as well as in biology. Just a Few Billion Years Left to Go 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z The ones that do know that often feel that their complaints disappear into a black hole. Perspective | Is the government doing enough to protect air travelers? 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z “In times of trouble, Donald Trump always is there — for himself. ‘Thoughts and prayers to the black hole in my heart that will never be filled and is the shape of my daddy.’” Stephen Colbert Tells Rex Tillerson: ‘Nobody Calls Our President a Moron Except Me’ 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z It was the possible warping of time accompanied by audience guffaws; the old sitcom format skirting the edge of a black hole. Perspective | So long to ‘The Big Bang Theory,’ which was smart about being dumb about being smart 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z It was amazing to get ahold of those again, and we went down as many black holes there as we did with YouTube. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Are Back With a British ‘X-Files’ 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Why do they put up with all this gasbagging about Nietzsche and quarks and black holes and Nazi algorithms? From Wonder Boys to Irrational Man: why Hollywood loves a hot professor 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Likewise, faced with Bradford’s layers of distressed paper, our eyes are drawn into a state of incomprehension, a black hole of knowing. Perspective | Mark Bradford’s art sees all the broken places that led to this moment of protest 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z Her shapes can resemble a nautilus, an eyeball, lungs or a black hole, with delicate lines milling about. Rediscovering the Joy of Japanese Art in London 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z “The Select” is also expert in its deployment of silences, black holes of contemplation amid the revelry, and in its signaling of passing time and changing moods by the simple rearrangement of furniture. | 'The Select (The Sun Also Rises)': ?The Select (The Sun Also Rises)? - Review 2011-09-12T02:01:06Z Malevich quite consciously displayed a black hole in a sacred spot: he called this work of his “an icon of our times.” The Square 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z “It’s like a black hole,” Mr. Beczala said, staring at the bell horn. Romancing the Horn: Opera Stars Record Like It’s 1900 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z He worked closely with the film's visual effects team to keep the film's depictions of black holes and other cosmic phenomena as science-based as possible. Kip Thorne, the scientist who slipped through a wormhole 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Now, black holes may point the way to a wholly new understanding of the most basic features of the world around us: space, time, matter and gravity. From Black Holes to Breakfast, Three Books Show How Einstein’s Legacy Lives On 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z One day, perhaps in 6bn years, our universe will stop expanding, the sun will cool and die, as all stars must, and everything will collapse in on itself, back into a black hole singularity. Digested read: Wonders of the Universe by Brian Cox 2011-03-21T21:30:01Z So she immediately recognizes the warning signs: getting lost as she jogs to her seminar, or stumbling into a black hole in an otherwise familiar sentence. Review: Still Alice: Julianne Moore Reveals Alzheimer's From the Inside 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z I wanted most to spare Sasha the realization that there would always be a black hole in the center of our lives. Modern Love: What the Sea Took Away, a Daughter Restores 2014-04-10T21:45:28Z It is composed of the stars, planets and comets making up the visible galaxies; there is also much that’s invisible – black holes and the much more abundant ‘dark matter’ and ‘dark energy’. Listen up, Marco Rubio!: Science lessons for the tea party 2012-11-25T19:00:00Z Scientists on Wednesday revealed the first image made of a black hole, depicting a fiery orange and black ring of gravity-twisted light. Scientists reveal the first image of a supermassive black hole 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z And if they manage to draw it out from their recorded signals, the E.H.T.’s picture of a black hole may play a crucial role in finding that new story. From Black Holes to Breakfast, Three Books Show How Einstein’s Legacy Lives On 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Only half a century ago, black holes were considered, in the words of Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli, “the barely credible predictions of an esoteric theory.” Perspective | The black hole image is beautiful and profound. It’s also very blurry. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The play, you see, memorably includes several gut-wrenching occasions when Barford’s Wheeler flips his appealingly grouchy persona to reveal a black hole of ugly, flailing, desperate narcissism. ‘Linda Vista’ Review: A Womanizer Who Devastates as He Charms 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Star-points of light seem to be sucked into the center of the rear wall, the black hole where the three stand embracing. Review: An Afrofuturist Trip to the Lunarverse 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z The physicist and cosmologist is known for many important theories including those on black holes and the birth of our universe. Creationist Ray Comfort attacks Stephen Hawking: “The Bible says he’s a fool” 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Would sound be higher or lower at the edge of a black hole? Of the spheres 2010-07-02T23:05:00Z The heat and density were too much, the neutron star became a black hole. Grab Life By The Sugar Frosted Nutsack 2012-04-11T16:53:05Z Jones said the concept emerged from the invisibility she felt after her pregnancy and taking a nine-to-five job, a time she refers to as her black hole. Vixen workouts fuse foxy cardio fitness with girls’ night out 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z But, “in terms of imagery and references, the East was more like a black hole for us.” Road Tripping Through Eurasia 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z The Oscars' black hole of boredom Oscar has fallen, and he can't get up. The Oscars' black hole of boredom 2011-02-28T16:01:00Z “Hawking” whizzes past black holes and “singularity” and “Hawking Radiation” with scarcely a glance. Stephen Hawking opens up about his life in documentary 2014-01-28T19:53:37Z “It’s just constantly raising expectations for myself,” he said, “to the point where, inevitably, I must surely collapse under my own mass and become some sort of creative black hole.” Alan Moore Celebrates a Real Person in ?Unearthing? 2010-07-26T22:10:00Z Peer too closely and you start to see the wires holding the whole thing, the gaps in the logic and big black holes that lead nowhere at all. Rise of the Guardians 2012-11-14T12:17:15Z In the struggle to apprehend a vast, incommunicable whole, Laird is frequently pulled inwards to the black hole – death – at the core of human experience. Go Giants by Nick Laird - review 2013-01-25T09:00:01Z “Fall River Boiler,” a black-and-white image that he photographed in 1978 and printed a decade or so later, is a nocturne of texture and tone: feathery asbestos, gloppy encrustations, circular black holes. When a Master Printer Picks Up the Camera 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Almost all of “Jerusalem” is set in Northampton, a town that Moore has fondly described as a “cultural black hole.” A Party in a Lunatic Asylum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z With its talk of wormholes, black holes, the fifth dimension and the puzzles of space and time, "Interstellar's" script makes full use of the services of one of its executive producers, theoretical physicist Kip Thorne. 'Interstellar' explores outer and inner spaces 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z He also has a runaway wife and a black hole where his identity should be. 'Winter in the Blood,' a Drama About Alcoholism 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Their sequel discovery stokes physicists’ hopes that they will soon collect enough findings to study the frequency of black hole fender benders and how they originate. Black holes are colliding: Scientists confirm more ripples in spacetime 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Filmed over several years, “Marx Can Wait” starts with toasts and table-talk, and then gravitates toward the black hole of Camillo’s death, in the process illuminating the legacy of a difficult and fascinating family. ‘Marx Can Wait’ Review: A Director Digs Into His Brother’s Death 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Causes range from nuclear war or spoiling the ecosystem to voraciously unstoppable man-made black holes or ravenous nano-plagues. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z Wasn’t Hall’s whole book about the randomness of the universe, the solipsism of black holes? Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Harry is, as Mr. Nesbo has noted, a “kind of black hole, where everything is kind of pulled in, and nothing escapes.” Review: Jo Nesbo, in ‘Blood on Snow,’ Tries a New Kind of Hero 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z In one of the show's video works, a man dressed as a black hole walks towards the camera until the big circle of nothingness on his chest seems to swallow everything. Artist of the week 94: Sem? Bekirovic 2010-07-02T14:42:00Z But it's the outer heavens, with their constellations, galaxies and black holes, that grip him these days. Sculptor Philip McCracken's cosmic turn 2011-12-15T21:01:06Z Drop into a black hole, however, and you'd slam through the point of no return at virtually the speed of light. Gravity's Engines: The Other Side of Black Holes - review 2012-12-12T07:00:00Z Mr. Kiefer addresses his interviewer’s earnest questions with references to Heidegger, the boredom of childhood, cellular memory, the theory of relativity, “The Odyssey,” Genesis, black holes and NASA’s numerical system for the stars. Following an Artist Into His Labyrinth 2011-08-05T15:37:13Z Where the eyes and mouth were, black holes gape in a bloodless grimace. Shostakovich meets Michelangelo the lover 2013-06-29T08:00:49Z To picture early-life forms and black holes, the filmmakers used a combination of unorthodox techniques and traditional photography. Images From ‘Voyage of Time,’ Explained 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Suddenly, we feel the tug of the black hole in which she has been floating and floundering for a very long 15 years. Review: ‘Blackbird’: The Past Returns, Taunting 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z When Kevin Jamison, 37, moved back to Virginia Beach from New York six years ago to work on an organic farm, the local food scene was “kind of a black hole,” he says. Where to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner in Virginia Beach 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z It reminded me of another work of scary excellence that pretty much was a career black hole for all connected with it, Bob Fosse’s “Star 80.” The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z So the black hole emits a particle to keep everything revenue- neutral. What 'Interstellar' Got Right and Wrong About Science 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z It’s also about the discovery of the very existence of black holes — a rags-to-riches tale about an implausible idea that gradually came to be accepted as implacable fact. From Black Holes to Breakfast, Three Books Show How Einstein’s Legacy Lives On 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z If I wasn't entirely charmed by this black hole, I was extremely interested. Why Am I Still Single?: First Cut; Horizon – Swallowed by a Black Hole 2013-06-27T06:00:10Z Getting too close to the gravity well of a massive object like a black hole causes time to move more slowly for you than it would for people on Earth. What 'Interstellar' Got Right and Wrong About Science 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Instead, she fell into a depressive black hole of goth clubs, hard drugs and gender confusion. The Most Famous Girl at the Waffle House 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z "I'm hoping that this will start filling the black hole of Dorset local broadcasting." New BBC radio show in Dorset on air 2013-07-08T05:29:22Z That black hole creates such a pull, and the lines are so dizzying, that one visitor swayed and stumbled as she tried to find the exit. Monumental balloon by Anish Kapoor in Paris show 2011-05-11T12:33:13Z |
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