Gravity's Engines Quotes

“Here on Earth, every second roughly 65 billion neutrinos from the Sun’s core pass through every square centimeter of your skin. Eight minutes ago they were produced in the solar center, and they have raced outward at a rate that comes close to the speed of light. Despite that incredible barrage, the chances of one actually being stopped by your body are so low that it may happen only once or twice during your lifetime.”
― Caleb Scharf, Gravity's Engines: The Other Side of Black Holes

“The most distant quasars exist in a very young universe, barely a billion years old.”
― Caleb Scharf, Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos

“If I computed the total power of this radiation, it was a hundred times greater than the X-ray emission of a normal galaxy cluster.”
― Caleb Scharf, Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos