英语听力：2013-10-04 地平线：黑洞吞噬—7

 It suggested a baffling paradox¹ that quasars are really shining black holes, capable of emitting the energy of entire galaxies². But Lynden-Bell then went further. 

 

I predicted that there would be these massive objects found in the nearby galaxies. 

 

He brought his ideas together with a bold conceptual leap about where these super-massive black holes would be found in the cosmos³. 

 

Typically a large galaxy⁴ would have a black hole of the sort of amount of many millions of solar masses. Mass. And these would typically reside in the middles of large galaxies. 

 

It’s a pretty bold prediction. 

 

Yeah, well, I come from a military family. 

 

Lynden-Bell's hypothesis was so radical⁵, it seemed far-fetched. Inside the centre of every large galaxy in the universe lurks⁶ a super massive black hole. 

 

If Lynden-Bell was right and every galaxy has a super-massive black hole at its centre, then there should be one right in our own backyard, in the middle of the hundreds of billions of stars that form our own galaxy, the Milky⁷ Way. The problem was trying to map our galaxy from the outside when we can only view it from within. Seeing around that obstacle would take ingenuity⁸ and some careful observations. 

 

One of the problems of living inside the galaxy like the Milky Way, is that because we are inside it, it's really difficult for us to see what shape it is, how big it is and where in it we actually live.

1 paradox   

n.似乎矛盾却正确的说法；自相矛盾的人(物)

参考例句：

• The story contains many levels of paradox.这个故事存在多重悖论。
• The paradox is that Japan does need serious education reform.矛盾的地方是日本确实需要教育改革。

2 galaxies   

星系( galaxy的名词复数 )； 银河系； 一群（杰出或著名的人物）

参考例句：

• Quasars are the highly energetic cores of distant galaxies. 类星体是遥远星系的极为活跃的核心体。
• We still don't know how many galaxies there are in the universe. 我们还不知道宇宙中有多少个星系。

3 cosmos   

n.宇宙；秩序，和谐

参考例句：

• Our world is but a small part of the cosmos.我们的世界仅仅是宇宙的一小部分而已。
• Is there any other intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos?在宇宙的其他星球上还存在别的有智慧的生物吗？

4 galaxy   

n.星系；银河系；一群(杰出或著名的人物)

参考例句：

• The earth is one of the planets in the Galaxy.地球是银河系中的星球之一。
• The company has a galaxy of talent.该公司拥有一批优秀的人才。

5 radical   

n.激进份子，原子团，根号；adj.根本的，激进的，彻底的

参考例句：

• The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
• She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。

6 lurks   

n.潜在，潜伏；（lurk的复数形式）vi.潜伏，埋伏（lurk的第三人称单数形式）

参考例句：

• Behind his cool exterior lurks a reckless and frustrated person. 在冷酷的外表背后，他是一个鲁莽又不得志的人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Good fortune lies within Bad, Bad fortune lurks within good. 福兮祸所倚，祸兮福所伏。 来自互联网

7 milky   

adj.牛奶的，多奶的；乳白色的

参考例句：

• Alexander always has milky coffee at lunchtime.亚历山大总是在午餐时喝掺奶的咖啡。
• I like a hot milky drink at bedtime.我喜欢睡前喝杯热奶饮料。

8 ingenuity   

n.别出心裁；善于发明创造

参考例句：

• The boy showed ingenuity in making toys.那个小男孩做玩具很有创造力。
• I admire your ingenuity and perseverance.我钦佩你的别出心裁和毅力。