Richard Dawkins, the Oxford zoologist and author, once said that
"science is the poetry of reality", an observation that inspired
a new video from the people who run the Symphony of Science
project. Another link can be made between science and poetry
when scientific discoveries inspire people to write poems.
Jonathan Taylor, a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at De
Montfort University in the UK, wrote a poem about the deep note
generated by a black hole in the Perseus galaxy cluster. "I
first came across the fascinating idea that the supermassive
black hole emitted a B-flat on a T.V. programme, and it
instantly caught my imagination. I've always written a great
deal about both music and science, and here I had the
opportunity to combine both interests in one poem. There's real
beauty, music and poetry in contemporary cosmology, yet it's a
subject that's often overlooked by writers." - Jonathan Taylor
Black Hole in B-Flat Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray
Observatory have found, for the first time, sou