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Article: Hunting for black holes.(explanatory)
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- Highlights for Children
- Article date:
- December 1, 1996
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A space traveler notices a black spot looming ahead, a place where no stars can be seen. The spaceship veers toward this dark object, which seems to pull on the ship. The blackness grows bigger, blotting out more and more stars. With a burst of rocket fire, the ship barely escapes from the powerful pull of the black hole.
If we had spaceships that could carry us far away from our Solar System, a black hole would be every space voyager's nightmare. A black hole is so strong that it swallows everything that enters it. Once you fall into one, you can't get out again. Not even light - the fastest thing in the universe - can escape a black hole. That's why a black ...