The monster hiding at the center of our galaxy

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The anchor holding our majestic swirling galaxy together is essentially an inescapable cosmic drain. At the center of almost every major galaxy, including ours, sits a supermassive black hole completely annihilating any gas, dust, or unlucky stars that wander too close to its event horizon.

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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.

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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.

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

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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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The monster hiding at the center of our galaxy

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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

A bigger world.
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at a time.