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New Type of Black Hole Spotted in the Early Universe
Early clouds of gas and dust may have collapsed to form a huge single star that quickly became the seed for a supermassive black hole. A bright galaxy in the early universe likely contains a mysterious kind of black hole that had previously existed only in theory, a new study suggests. This probable "direct-collapse" black hole may help explain how supermassive black holes - the light-gobbling behemoths that lurk at the hearts of most, if not all, galaxies - got their start, researchers said. "The special aspect of this [direct-collapse] process is that it leads to the formation of a very massive 'seed' black hole in one go," study co-author Avi Loeb, chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University, told Space.com via email.
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What would happen if you fell into a black hole?
What would happen if you were travelling through space and you inadvertently end up falling into a black hole? For one thing, you would definitely die. But before this, and up to the point of death, several other things would happen, too. Toby Wiseman, a theoretical physicists from Imperial College London, explained what would happen to a person in a black hole. "We'd be catastrophically crushed," he said. "A black hole is a region where space and time have been so distorted that actually the space inside we would expect would get smaller and smaller and eventually and inevitably, we'd be crushed to zero size. In fact the very last instant physicists don't really understand because nothing can
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