Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Quotation for the Day: Black Hole


image from below-cited article

"If too much matter is crammed into one place, the cumulative force of gravity becomes overwhelming, and the place becomes an eternal trap, a black hole. Here, according to Einstein’s theory, matter, space and time come to an end and vanish like a dream. ... 
a black hole’s point of no return; whatever crosses the event horizon falls into blackness everlasting."

From: Dennis Overbye, "Black Hole Picture Revealed for the First Time: Astronomers at last have captured an image of the darkest entities in the cosmos," The New York Times, April 10, 2019 [JB Note: now we know what heaven looks like?]


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