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Black Holes in Central Park

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How Does a Black Hole Affect the Environment?

Cygnus X1 is the fastest black hole we've found. It's spinning at near the speed of light. The next number that you use to describe a black hole is its charge, its electric charge. And then the third number is a black hole's mass. This is the most important number because it determines the gravitational effect that the black hole will have on stuff around it.

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