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Black Holes in Central Park

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The Anatomy of a Black Hole

A black hole is, by definition, an object so dense with such strong gravity that their escape velocity is greater than the speed of light. Black holes are just like big, big pits and things can fall in, but they are not getting sucked in. Around the black hole, you often see what we call a accretion disk around newly formed stars.

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