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Still, the combination of how small they are and how vast the galaxy is means that stellar black holes don’t give us much to worry about.
But we still have to meet the second type: supermassive black holes.
These giants have grown to immense proportions by swallowing matter and merging with other black holes.
Unlike their stellar cousins, supermassive black holes aren’t wandering through space.
Our solar system is in a stable orbit around a supermassive black hole that resides at the center of the Milky Way, at a safe distance of 25,000 light-years.
If our galaxy collides with another, the Earth could be thrown towards the galactic center, close enough to the supermassive black hole to be eventually swallowed up.
But before we judge them too harshly, black holes aren’t simply agents of destruction.
Far from being shadowy characters in the cosmic play, black holes have fundamentally contributed in making the universe a bright and astonishing place.
A high forehead topped by disheveled black hair, a sickly pallor, and a look of deep intelligence and deeper exhaustion in his dark, sunken eyes.
These kits were spilling out of large, black garbage bags and empty oil drums.
But I think that's an Orwellian way of describing black holes.
It was grey and black, and he thought it looked cheap.
Now in this example, the CRISPR technology was used to disrupt a gene by making a tiny change in the DNA in a gene that is responsible for the black coat color of these mice.
Around them, the bodies were bloating and turning black.
But because of who I am, young or old, black or white, gay or straight, I will value them differently.
Baghdad was covered in black smoke and oil.
Since their discovery, it's been the animals that have received the majority of the study like this black horse from Cullalvera in Spain, or this unusual purple bison from La Pasiega.
White objects reflect all colors of light, while black things do exactly the opposite and absorb at all frequencies.
They dressed like civilian peasants in black, silk pajamas with a checkered scarf.
I am both black and a woman.
I study blazars, supermassive, hyperactive black holes that sit at the centers of massive galaxies and shoot out jets nearby those black holes at speeds approaching the speed of light in a process we are still trying to completely understand.
I had no idea that at that time, according to Dr. Jamie Alexander's archive of African-American women in physics, only 18 black women in the United States had ever earned a PhD in a physics-related discipline, and that the first black woman to graduate with a PhD in an astronomy-related field did so just one year before my birth.
It was striking to me because it featured a young black girl, probably around 12 years old, looking studiously at some physics equations.
The purpose for this talk is twofold: first, to say directly to every black, Latina, indigenous, First Nation or any other woman or girl who finds herself resting at the blessed intersection of race and gender, that you can be anything you want to be.
One of my favorite examples of liminal excellence comes from the late Dr. Claudia Alexander, a black woman plasma physicist, who passed away this past July after a 10-year bout with breast cancer.
Despite implicit and explicit questions of my right to be in an elite space, I'm proud to report that when I graduated, I was the first black woman to earn a PhD in astrophysics in Yale's then 312-year history.
They reveal a beautiful range of colors: glossy, dark plumage, reminiscent of crows, alternating strips of black and white, or splashes of bright red.
Okay, what about that supermassive black hole in the middle of our galaxy?
Our solar system is on the edge of the Milky Way while the nearest supermassive black hole is about 26,000 light years from Earth.
That means we aren't on that black hole's menu.
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