BLACK HOLES?

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SCHWARZSCHILD RADIUS

Everything has a Schwarzschild radius (a very small amount of space, that

if you were to collapse the entire mass of the object into, its density would
be so great that its gravitational pull would be so strong, meaning not
even light could escape)

Ex: Compressing the Earth into the size of a peanut would create a black
hole. (but currently isn’t possible)
A star way bigger than our sun would have a much larger Schwarzschild radius

Once it runs out of fuel and can no longer stay hot, it collapses to a single small point known
as a “singularity.” Its density will be infinite, so its gravitational pull will be so strong that nothing can
escape, not even light.
Knowing that
gravitational fields
bend space and
time. Stars behind our
sun will appear in
slightly different
locations.

So if light was coming

from behind an
object it would look
like a ring.
“Gravitational Lensing”
 Event
Horizon

death