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(a warped sense of gravity results in warped space around the black hole.)

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Due to the fact that scientists have never directly observed a black hole, we're, unfortunately, not really sure what they look like.

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However, black holes haven't ever been seen in person. So, we don't really know what they look like, aside from scientifically backed up theories

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In actuality, they probably look more like the image below (based off of scientific theories/calculations and experiments)

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When people picture black holes, they probably think of something like this --------->

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As far as objects other than the human body, the effects are relatively similar. Any object that comes in contact with a black hole will be sucked into its gravitational pull and won't be able to escape.

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A cool video explaining the effect of black holes and their immense gravity on the human body --------------------------->

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What Would Happen if You Fell Into a Black Hole?

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Seeing the back of your own head could be a result of falling into a black hole.

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So, while you might end up with a rather untimely end, you would get to experience the future (and the past. At the same time), which, I gotta say, isn't the worst way to go.

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According to Charles Liu, If you were to somehow get sucked into a black hole, "First of all, you approach the speed of light as you fall into the black hole. So the faster you move through space, the slower you move through time," he said. "Furthermore, as you fall, there are things that have been falling in front of you that have experienced an even greater 'time dilation' than you have. So if you're able to look forward toward the black hole, you see every object that has fallen into it in the past. And then if you look backwards, you'll be able to see everything that will ever fall into the black hole behind you. Pretty trippy.

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Unfortunately, you have virtually no chance of survival once in contact with a black hole.

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According to Charles Liu, an astrophysicist at the  American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium, "If you were to take a step into a black hole, your body would most closely resemble 'toothpaste being extruded out of the tube,'"

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A common question when discussing the existence of black holes is whether or not we'll ever be able to see one in person...

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Now that we know what a black hole is, let's find out how it effects the human body 

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Now that we know what a black hole is, let's find out how it effects the human body 

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But what does this have to do with black holes?

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But what does this have to do with black holes?

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Another good question! Black holes are known to have such a strong gravitational pull that objects can't escape from it. Einstein's theory predicted that an object with a very compact mass could affect space-time and create a black hole.

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(basically, he predicted the the space-time around earth would be warped and twisted by its rotation. He proposed that all large objects cause a "distortion in space-time" due to their mass. On earth, this is felt in the form of gravity.)

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The general theory of relativity explains that what we think of as the force of gravity in fact arises from the curvature of space and time. Einstein proposed that objects such as the sun and the Earth change this geometry.

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Einstein first predicted the existence of black holes in 1916 with the general theory of relativity.

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While Wheeler was the first man to use the term "black hole", the concept of black holes was actually invented by Albert Einstein -->

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Wheeler originally used the term in reference to a star in its last phase of gravitational collapse

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The official term "black hole" was first used by an American Physicist named John A. Wheeler in the early 20th century

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*A celestial object is any naturally occurring object outside of earth's orbit
(like a star, or a comet, etc)

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Good question! A black hole is a celestial object* of such great gravity that it attracts everything near it and in some instances prevents everything, including light, from escaping.