I swear to heaven and the Tariq!

they are stars piercing

the darkness 

(Quran, 86..1-3)

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For the Mayans Hunak Bu,

throats in the centre

of the stars, an immeasurable

force around which the solar

system spins.

(Chilam Balam)

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The Hindus described them

as darkness, covered by 

darkness in space.

(129-100, mandala of the Rig Veda)

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A demonic entity

bright and made of light. 

An astral prison in the planetary system.

(Hp Lovecraft, Stories of Mythos)

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They are the abysm in the sky,

the place where it is said that everything

stays still and nothing gets out...

empty void of space too.

The great exit that leads nowhere,

under, beyond, beyond everything.

(Roger Zelazny, Creatures of Light and Darkness )

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They are the wind in a tornado.

Built with the finest structure, 

just as the Earth has a vast and 

abandoned structure of mountains,

valleys, oceans, etc.

Their embowed space spins around

the central singularity as does

the wind in a tornado.

(Kip Thorne, theoretical physicist) 

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Where God divided by zero

(Albert Einstein)

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The wrinkled space like

a piece of paper at an

infinitesimal point, which

proves that the laws of physics

that we considered to be sacred

are everything but that.

(John Wheeler, physicist)

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If space is a fabric,

of course, fabrics can have

fluctuations, which we have

now seen directly.

But fabrics can also rip.

Then the question is: what happens

when the tissue of space and time

is torn apart by a black hole.

(Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist) 

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They are the most perfect

macroscopic objects that exist 

in the universe: the only

elements in their construction

are our conceptions of space and time.

(Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, astrophysicist)

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They are proof that God plays with dice,

and sometimes he confuses us by throwing them

where they cannot be seen.

(Stephen Hawking, interview with BBC radio)

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They are spheric, it is believed that they spin,

dragging the continuum of space-time 

as if it were honey around a swiveling spoon.

In this confusing regions of space-time

it is not clear if they travel through time, or space, or both.

(Vedant Khandelwal, writer)

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They are the most popular theoretical concept.

which has finally acquired physical shape

thanks to the magic of fiction, 

and that deserves all the applauses.

Yet, they are just that: a construction based on theory

equations and mathematics 

(Servio Silva Luna, article about the representation of black holes in the movie Interestellar)

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They are portraits to another dimension 

or time, or universe.

Science fiction might be closer to reality than

we could have imagined.

(Gaurav Khanna, physicist)

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We have seen that which we thought 

was not visible. 

It is what we expected it to be.

(Shep Doeleman, on the first image of a black hole)

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They are data that will forever

change our way of understanding these objects.

It seems like science fiction but it is not,

It is something much better.

It is science at its purest.

(ALMA observatory disseminators on the first image of a black hole)

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Images: A View From Nowhere by Juan Cortés → @juancortes79