Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many... →
Henry Louis Gates
People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.
Jean Paul Gaultier
Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.
Bob Geldof
U.S. surveillance of Pakistan extends far beyond its nuclear program. There are several references in the black budget to expanding U.S. scrutiny of... →
Barton Gellman
What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this... →
Jean Genet
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... →
Andrea M. Ghez
Fortunately, most things around the supermassive black hole are just going to go around it. They're going to orbit it. They don't actually... →
Black holes are very exotic objects. Technically, a black hole puts a huge amount of mass inside of zero volume. So our understanding of the center... →
Our galaxy's pretty ordinary, garden-variety. So if we believe our galaxy has a super massive black hole, that tells us that most, if not all... →
We have this interesting problem with black holes. What is a black hole? It is a region of space where you have mass that's confined to zero... →