I would try to write ‘realistic’ fiction, and someone would fly, or there would be a black hole full of demons or a girl who attracted frogs.
Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history.
One of the big mysteries about the black hole at the center of the galaxy is, ‘Why don’t we see emission from matter falling onto the black hole, or, rather, the black hole eating up its surroundings?’
The key to proving that there’s a black hole is showing that there’s a tremendous amount of mass in a very small volume. And you can do that with the motions of stars.
I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters.
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.
The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn’t be sustained indefinitely. That’s why I pulled the plug on that one after the ’02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
Now, our Sun will not collapse to a black hole. It’s actually not massive enough.
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