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Due to their immense gravity, black holes slow down time. If you were near one, time would pass much slower for you compared to someone far away.
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Some black holes can be just the size of an atom but have the mass of a mountain! The smaller the black hole, the denser it is.
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Even though nothing can escape a black hole's event horizon, they can emit powerful jets of radiation and particles through a process called relativistic jets.
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A black hole named Gaia BH1 is the nearest known one to Earth. Scientists keep discovering more that are even closer!
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Black holes slowly shrink due to Hawking radiation, a process predicted by Stephen Hawking. Smaller black holes evaporate faster than larger ones.
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The Milky Way has a giant black hole called Sagittarius A* at its core, with a mass about 4 million times that of the Sun.
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When two black holes collide, they create gravitational waves, ripples in space-time that scientists can detect on Earth.
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Scientists have found black holes that formed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, making them some of the oldest objects in existence.
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Black holes appear black because their gravity prevents light from escaping. However, the material swirling around them in an accretion disk can glow extremely bright.
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The largest known black hole, TON 618, has an estimated mass of 66 billion Suns! It's one of the most massive objects ever discovered.
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