| "I loved the stars too
fondly to be fearful of the night"—so says Sarah Williams in the poem "The
Old Astronomer to His Pupil." By a show of hands, how many people used to look
up at the night sky as a child? How many people still go outside and look up at
the night sky, wondering what's out there that they can't see? Today I will be
presenting information on one of the amazing phenomena of our universe, the black
hole. As a result of two semesters of college-credit astronomy classes and in
my previous two weeks of research for this presentation, I feel qualified to
speak on this topic. For those of you who are familiar with science fiction at
all, my presentation will actually make sense [of] a lot of the technological
terms and scientific terms thrown around. |