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Black holes.


Do black holes really exist?

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Yes, they do. At sometime in its very long life, a star may use up the nuclear energy that keeps it in the form of a hot gas. Then it contracts and gets smaller. It may become a dwarf star dwarf star: see white dwarf.
dwarf star

Any star of average or low luminosity, mass, and size, including white dwarf stars and red dwarf stars. Dwarf stars include most main-sequence stars (see Hertzsprung-Russell diagram), including the Sun.
, with all its matter squeezed more tightly together. However, if it was very large to start with, it will have a very great mass and pull of gravity. The idea is that maybe the force pulling all that stuff together can get so great that it crushes the star down to almost nothing at all.

A black hole is a place where not even light can escape. That's why it's it's  

1. Contraction of it is.

2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its.


it's it is or it has
it's be ~have
 called a black hole. So I guess that anything that fell in would get crushed down to almost nothing at all.
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