When Ronald Gamble first learned about black holes as a teen, he read as much as he could about them. But he noticed that researchers still had much to learn about how they worked. “The mystery of black holes really drove me to study them,” he says.
Around the same age, Gamble started painting. This love for art soon found its way into his homework. Applying geometry from art to describe physics was “a game changer,” he says. Sketching in his physics notebooks helped him “see” the math and better understand how mathematical languages worked.
Explainer: What are black holes?
As a theoretical astrophysicist, Gamble still combines the two. He studies how black holes warp the shape of spacetime around them. Space and time weave together to form the fabric of the universe. A black hole’s immense <...
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