Fascinating NASA facts about black holes

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Black holes are mysterious cosmic objects, studied a lot but not fully understood.

They aren't holes; they're huge amounts of matter packed into tiny spaces.

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A black hole is so dense that its gravity is strong enough to stop light from escaping.

The event horizon isn’t a surface but a boundary containing all the black hole’s matter.

The nearest black hole, Gaia BH1, is about 1,500 light-years away.

The lightest known black hole is just 3.8 times the Sun’s mass.

All black holes spin. The fastest known one rotates over 1,000 times per second.

When matter gets too close to a black hole, it’s stretched and squeezed, resembling a noodle.

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