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LESSON 5 · Black Holes: Where Physics Breaks

PAUSE TO THINK

What would happen if you could compress Earth to the size of a marble?

It would become a black hole

Compressing any mass below its Schwarzschild radius creates a black hole. For Earth, that radius is only about 9 millimeters — roughly the size of a marble.

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