Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"What did it look like?" "Like?like?It had the biggest head you ever saw... A huge great enormous thing, like?like nothing. A huge big?well, like a ?I don't know?like an enormous big nothing..." ?A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
In Milne's classic, Piglet was left virtually speechless by his run-in with what he thought was the mysterious Heffalump. Now astronomers can share his bafflement as they grope for words to describe their own strange encounter. Off in the distant heavens, among a grouping of stars that the...
If Einstein's theory is correct, black holes are the natural consequences of the death of giant stars. In what astronomers call catastrophic gravitational collapse, most of the matter contained in such a dying star begins falling in toward the stellar center. If the conditions are right, the matter crushes...
Besides the possible black hole in Cygnus, one appears to be part of another double-star system in the constellation Scorpius (the Scorpion). Three more may have been detected, each at the heart of a globular cluster of stars in the halo of the earth's Milky Way galaxy. In...
Despite his enormous handicaps, Hawking retains undiminished enthusiasm for his work and his family. He is the devoted father of two children, a son, 11, and a daughter, 7. His wife Jane, to whom he has been married for 13 years, often accompanies him to scientific meetings, where he inevitably...