If you safely watched a friend fall directly into a black hole, what would you actually see?

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Black holes do not actually suck things in like a cosmic vacuum cleaner, but rather they just exert an incredibly strong gravitational pull identical to any other object of similar mass.

Black holes do not actually suck things in like a cosmic vacuum cleaner, but rather they just exert an incredibly strong gravitational pull identical to any…

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Black holes can literally stretch your body into a single strand of atoms in a horrifying process officially known as spaghettification.

Black holes can literally stretch your body into a single strand of atoms in a horrifying process officially known as spaghettification. If you were unlucky…

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Every piece of gold jewelry on Earth was originally forged by what extreme cosmic event?

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The universe has trillions of intensely bright stars. So why is the night sky mostly pitch black?

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Supermassive black holes occasionally tear apart and consume wandering stars in a violent process called a tidal disruption event, but they do not always swallow their cosmic meals cleanly.

Supermassive black holes occasionally tear apart and consume wandering stars in a violent process called a tidal disruption event, but they do not always…

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Trillions of tiny subatomic particles called neutrinos pass through your body every single second without you ever noticing, originating mostly from the nuclear reactions happening inside the sun.

Trillions of tiny subatomic particles called neutrinos pass through your body every single second without you ever noticing, originating mostly from the…

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If you safely watched a friend fall directly into a black hole, what would you actually see?

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Black holes do not actually suck things in like a cosmic vacuum cleaner, but rather they just exert an incredibly strong gravitational pull identical to any other object of similar mass.

Black holes can literally stretch your body into a single strand of atoms in a horrifying process officially known as spaghettification.

Every piece of gold jewelry on Earth was originally forged by what extreme cosmic event?

The universe has trillions of intensely bright stars. So why is the night sky mostly pitch black?

Supermassive black holes occasionally tear apart and consume wandering stars in a violent process called a tidal disruption event, but they do not always swallow their cosmic meals cleanly.

Trillions of tiny subatomic particles called neutrinos pass through your body every single second without you ever noticing, originating mostly from the nuclear reactions happening inside the sun.

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