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Black Hole Facts
A black hole's gravitational pull is so strong that not even light can escape it.
The point of no return around a black hole is called the event horizon.
Time moves slower near a black hole due to extreme gravitational forces.
The first-ever image of a black hole was released in 2019.
Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies.
Black holes can be as small as a single atom or as large as billions of suns.
The closest known black hole to Earth is about 1,000 light-years away.
Black holes emit radiation, known as Hawking radiation.
The largest known black hole, TON 618, is 66 billion times the mass of our Sun.
Inside a black hole, all known laws of physics break down completely.
Black holes can actually merge, creating massive gravitational waves in space.
The term 'black hole' was coined by physicist John Wheeler in 1967.
Einstein's theory of relativity predicted black holes before they were discovered.
A black hole's gravitational pull can bend light, creating a lens effect in space.
If you fell into a black hole, you would experience 'spaghettification' - being stretched into a thin stream of particles.
Some black holes rotate at nearly the speed of light.
The Milky Way's central black hole, Sagittarius A*, is 4 million times more massive than our Sun.
Time stops completely at the event horizon of a black hole.
Black holes can create powerful jets of particles that stretch for thousands of light-years.
The temperature inside a black hole could be in the trillions of degrees.
A black hole with the mass of Earth would be about the size of a cherry.
The sound waves from a black hole are 57 octaves below middle C - the deepest note ever detected.
Black holes might be portals to other universes, according to some theories.
A black hole's event horizon appears to grow larger as you get closer to it.
Information that falls into a black hole might not be lost forever - it could be encoded on the event horizon.
The first theoretical black hole solution was found by Karl Schwarzschild in 1916.
Intermediate-mass black holes might hide in the cores of globular star clusters.
The energy released by a supermassive black hole can prevent stars from forming in its galaxy.