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If you fell in a star-sized black hole you would:
A black hole is a collapsed star. When high-mass stars use up all their fuel, their cores collapse inward. The heaviest collapsed star cores become black holes. The pull of its gravity is so strong that nothing nearby -- dust, stars, even light -- can escape. Black holes are still one of the most mysterious objects in space.
be pulled into a long thread
be burned to a crisp
bounce right out
Are you right?
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.
Frank Summers, astrophysicist
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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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There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our very own galaxy, the Milky Way.
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Fact
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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Fact
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.
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.
Image credits: Accretion Disk Binary System Drawing Credit, courtesy of STScI and NASA The Center of Centaurus, courtesy of E.J. Schreier (STScI) et al.,and NASA; Frank Summers: AMNH.