There are few things in the universe quite as exciting as black holes.
They’re in all the movies–I even wrote a post a few years ago on what the movies get wrong about them! Though some movies, like Interstellar, do a pretty good job of capturing the relativistic effects.
There are also plenty of popular misconceptions floating about–probably thanks to those fictional portrayals!
Most of the time, when we geek out over black holes, we’re talking about stellar-mass black holes. That is, the remains of massive stars.
Wait a second…most of the time? What other kind of black hole could we be talking about?
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