Stellar Collapse Quotes

Once a star dies, it's gone forever. There are no new stars to take its place. Eventually, there will be no stars, and the universe will turn black. That really will be the end.

Stars have their moments then they die.

When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely.

I knew that at least a few of the stars I saw were probably gone already, collapsed into nothing. I felt like I was looking at a lie. But I didn't mind. The world makes liars of us all.

..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.

The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.

The edge of a black hole, the event horizon, is a boundary that marks the point of no return. Once an object crosses the event horizon, it cannot escape and will be ripped to pieces, atom by atom.

We know about black holes and neutron stars, but we hope there are other phenomena we can see because of the gravitational waves they emit.

Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.

Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.

Black holes are pretty scary when you ponder them. They seem nihilistic, infinitely destructive on an inconceivable scale, notwithstanding the ideas of Hawking radiation.

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.