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Black Holes

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Is There a Black Hole?

Black hole was first used in print by the journalist ann ewing in 19 64. Popularization of it is generally credited to a physicist named john wheeler, who used it in a lecture inlike, 19 67, 19 68. But really, people just started calling them black holes. And there was never like a seminole paper were like the black hole that i've discovered. We also don't really know the exact moment where black hole became an astrophysic term.

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