Science
Focusing on theoretical investigations, the MPA covers a wide range of topics in astrophysics. These include:
- Cosmology, in particular galaxy formation and evolution, reionization, and the cosmic microwave background;
- High-energy astronomy and astrophysics, including supermassive black holes, active galactic nuclei and quasars, X-ray binaries, and accretion discs;
- Stellar physics, including stellar evolution and stellar explosions such as supernovae and gamma-ray bursts.
Read more about this topic: Max Planck Institute For Astrophysics
Famous quotes containing the word science:
“Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord, not because he is the most subtile inhabitant, but because he is its head and heart, and finds something of himself in every great and small thing, in every mountain stratum, in every new law of color, fact of astronomy, or atmospheric influence which observation or analysis lay open.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)
“If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)