Black Holes

Categories: Science | Physics | Astronomy
    • In 1967 John Archibald Wheeler coined the term "Black Hole"
    • Cygnus X-1 was the first solid black hole candidate in 1970
    • Throughout the 1990s the Hubble Space Telescope found evidence that supermassive black holes may exist in the centers of many galaxies in the universe, including our own.
    • Spaghettification: If you fell into a black hole, the atoms in your body would be turned into one long string of atomic spaghetti!
    • Our Milky Way galaxy contains a super massive black hole that's about 3 million solar masses!
    • To date, all studied galaxies contain a super-massive black hole at their center.

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