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English physicist and musician
“If you fall across the event horizon of a black hole, every line of your future points to the center of the black hole.”
"There's a supermassive black hole at the center of every galaxy, and there are also smaller black holes that aren't necessarily in the center."
on Space
"When stars run out of fuel, they start to collapse under gravity, and if they're sufficiently massive, they collapse to an infinitely dense point."
"A neutron star can be one and a half times the mass of the Sun but only about 10 miles across, making it incredibly dense."
"Not every star becomes a black hole at the end of its life; smaller stars can become white dwarfs instead."
"There are theories that something is orbiting in the Kuiper belt, which could disrupt objects and send comets and asteroids inward."
"Mass extinctions on Earth may have been caused by impacts from space, and there are theories suggesting a massive object could be responsible."
