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    THINGS TO CONSIDER

    HOW DOES BLACK HOLE


    What Is a Black Hole? How Big Are Black Holes?
    FORM?

    What would happen if you Could a Black Hole How Is NASA Studying
    fell into a black hole? Destroy Earth? Black Holes?
    What Is a Black Hole?
    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.
    How Big Are Black Holes?
    •Black holes can be big or small. Scientists
    think the smallest black holes are as small
    as just one atom. These black holes are
    very tiny but have the mass of a large
    mountain. Mass is the amount of matter, or
    "stuff," in an object.
    •Another kind of black hole is called
    "stellar." Its mass can be up to 20 times
    more than the mass of the sun.
    What would happen if you fell
    into a black hole?

    A jump into a black hole is a one-way trip. Black holes are


    regions of space where gravity is so strong that nothing can
    escape them, not even light. Even before you reach the event
    horizon – the point of no return – you would be
    “spaghettified” by the black hole’s tidal forces. Astronomers
    do not actually know what goes on inside black holes.
    HOW DOES BLACK HOLE FORM?
    •The traditional recipe to make a black hole needs a
    single ingredient: a very massive star at the end of
    its life.
    •Black holes that form through these mechanisms
    usually have masses three to ten times greater than
    the Sun and they are called stellar-mass black holes.
    In theory black holes of any size can exist.
    Supermassive black holes of a million to a billion
    times the mass of our Sun are found at the centre of
    (almost) all massive galaxies. How they form is still
    not fully understood.
    Structure
    •Black holes do not go around in space
    eating stars, moons and planets. Earth
    will not fall into a black hole because no
    black hole is close enough to the solar
    system for Earth to do that.
    •Even if a black hole the same mass as
    the sun were to take the place of the sun,
    Earth still would not fall in. The black hole
    would have the same gravity as the sun.
    Earth and the other planets would orbit
    the black hole as they orbit the sun now.
    •The sun will never turn into a black hole.
    Could a Black Hole Destroy Earth The sun is not a big enough star to make
    a black hole.
    HOW IS NASA STUDYING
    BLACK HOLES?
    NASA is using satellites
    and telescopes that are
    traveling in space to learn
    more about black holes.
    These spacecraft help
    scientists answer questions
    about the universe.
    End!

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