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Cosmic Queries – The Shape of the Universe with Delilah Gates

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The Event Horizon Um Gravity So Strong That Even Light Can Escape From the Black Hole

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Black holes at the center of our galaxies have so much gravity that even light can escape from them if it gets too close. This is just a bigger and more pronounced effect of what you probably know from your astronomy classes or science class when you learn about planets being able to be on orbits. If like i mentioned the photonsphere earlier you can get light bending around black holes multiple times.

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