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    Black holes should probably not be called black holes. In fact, black holes are anything but empty space. Black holes are a great amount of matter packed and squeezed into a very small area. The result of this amount of matter squeezed into a small area results in a gravitational field so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. Scientists do not have the ability to directly observe black holes with telescopes that detect x-rays, light, or other forms of electromagnetic radiation. However

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    Black Holes Albert Einstein first predicted black holes in 1916 with his general theory of relativity. The term "black hole" was coined in 1967 by American astronomer John Wheeler, and the first one was discovered in 1971. A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out. The gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space. This can happen when a star is dying. Because no light can get out, people can't see black holes. They are

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    Scientific Understanding of Black Holes Black holes are a place in space where the pull of gravity is so strong that anything including light is able to escape. Researchers say that the gravity of a black hole is so strong because matter is pressed into a tiny space. Black holes are sometimes called dying stars or they result in dying stars. There are many different sizes of black holes, but the three most common are primordial black holes, stellar, and supermassive. This list goes from smallest

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    Black Holes Lab

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    Black Holes were conceptualized by Reverend Michell\cite{41} in 1783 while searching a means to measure the mass of stars by evaluating the reduction in the speed of light due to the gravitational pull of the star. Michell reasoned that the maximal effect measurable would be limited by the escape velocity from the star, which is the speed of light. Any star more massive than this maximal limit would not permit light to escape from its surface (no constraint regarding the speed of light were proposed

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    What Is A Black Hole?

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    What is a black hole? In simple terms, a black hole is a visually undetectable region of space that exerts a gravitational force so powerful that not even light can escape [Wald 1984, pp. 299–300], thus exhibiting the characteristics of an ideal black body in the sense that it absorbs all the radiation that falls on it [Schutz, Bernard F. (2003). Gravity from the ground up. Cambridge University Press. p. 110]. In addition, all black holes are enveloped by spherical “boundaries” known as “event horizons”

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    things we still don’t fully understand. One of these are black holes. Black holes are still one of the most studied objects in outer space. These cosmic pits of darkness can hold secrets that help unlock so many unanswered questions. So what exactly do scientist know about these pits of darkness? And what can we still learn from them? But first, what exactly is a black hole? A black hole is basically a pothole in outer space. Black holes are places where the density of matter grew so much overtime

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    Black Holes: Introduction: Without knowing the existence of black holes, we would still be stuck with many unanswered questions concerning physics. The most important one would deal with the correctness of Einstein’s general relativity. When studying cosmology, various equations are used in order to explain the different phenomena that it contains, which are derived from general relativity. With this theory confirmed, all calculations appear more certain and confident. These objects are fairly

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    Black Holes      Every day we look into the night sky, wondering and dreaming what lies beyond our galaxy. Within our galaxy alone, there are millions upon millions of stars. This may be why it interests us to learn about all that we cannot see. Humans have known the existence of stars since they have had eyes, and see them as white glowing specks in the sky. The mystery lies beyond the white glowing specks we see but, in the things we cannot see in the night sky such as black holes.      Before

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    Black Holes Every day we look out upon the night sky, wondering and dreaming of what lies beyond our planet. The universe that we live in is so diverse and unique, and it interests us to learn about all the variance that lies beyond our grasp. Within this marvel of wonders, our universe holds a mystery that is very difficult to understand because of the complications that arise when trying to examine and explore the principles of space. That mystery happens to be that of the ever elusive, black

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    collapse upon itself to form a black hole. This is mostly dependent on the density of the star. When massive stars, those twenty times the mass of our Sun or more die, they must either exhaust all of their excess mass or implode upon themselves and form black holes. Gravity overwhelms even the nuclear forces. The gravitational force becomes so strong that nothing can escape it, even photons of light, hence the name "black" hole. It is believed that large black holes may exist at the center of our

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