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What is a black hole?
Regions of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape!
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Your “friendly neighborhood astrophysicist” Becky Smethurst is enthusiastically exploring the universe and educating us along the way.
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A team of astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and other institutes has discovered a black hole lying just 1000 light-years from Earth.
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