Black Holes in Central Park
Pale Blue Pod
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Black Hole Spins Like Planets Do
So when we see a black hole, usually we're just seeing the accretion disk around it. Because that's not what black holes do. It's just falling and it takes a long time for material to fall into a black hole. But because black holes are quite dense and quite massive, they're all at least as massive as our sun. And the closer you are to a massive object, the faster you have to move or else you'll just fall in. The really powerful ones have these jets of glowing material that shoot out from their poles. They spin just like planets do. Pretty much everything in space is spinning. Planets do it, moons do it, stars, black holes
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