They’re huge. They’re voracious. They’re blacker than a panther on a moonless night. They’re black holes, the mind-bending, space-warping cosmic objects with gravity so insanely powerful that even a beam of light that wanders too close will be sucked in, never to emerge. Einstein’s theory of general relativity predicted they might exist, but the great physicist himself doubted it would really happen.
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