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be pulled into a long thread
be burned to a crisp
bounce right out
Correct!
If you fell into a star-sized black hole, the strength of gravity would pull you apart and what was you would be stretched through space, and then crushed.
First candidate: Cygnus X-1
When observed: early 1970s
Types: star-sized, supermassive, and mini
Quantity: dozens known, billions possible
Origin: star-sized—where massive stars have died; supermassive—in center of galaxies; mini—created by the Big Bang
Significance: Gravity is so strong in a black hole that nothing can escape.
If you fell in a star-sized black hole you would:
There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our very own galaxy, the Milky Way.
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Astronomers think they have measured stars at the center of our galaxy orbiting really fast. Only the pull of a supermassive black hole could explain such rapid movement.
Star-sized black holes are more dense than planets and stars.
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Black holes can be millions of times more dense than planets and stars. Density is a measure of how much stuff fills up a certain space.
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If all Earth shrank to the density of a black hole, it would be the size of a marble (3/4 inch across). The Sun at black hole density would be less than 4 miles across.
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Frank Summers, astrophysicist