A Brief History of Black Holes Quotes

“if at first it doesn’t make sense, it’s a historical thing.”
― Becky Smethurst, A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong

“This led, in the early 1970s, to the first tentative proposal that at the centre of the Milky Way was a black hole. Let’s just put that into context for a minute. Humans managed to put someone on the Moon before we could even comprehend that all our lives have been spent inexorably orbiting around a black hole.”
― Becky Smethurst, A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong