... to try to give a simple explanation of the concepts behind black holes and some related topics. (NOTE: this is a very general overview and to try to explain the whole physics side of it will require some years of studying not to mention pages upon pages of information and formulas that would look like a bunch of meaningless, jumbled characters to those without an excellent physics background. An eyesore really.) BLACK HOLES Put simply, a black hole is a region of space that has so much mass concentrated in it that there is no way for a nearby object to escape its gravitational pull, not even light. To explain this more simply, imagine earth as it is. It has a gravitational field that is strong enough to prevent us from drifting into space and holds the moon in orbit. If you throw a rock up, it will come back down because ...

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