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If you veered too close to a black hole, no amount of thrust from your jet pack—or fuel in the tank of your spacecraft—would satisfy the energy needed to escape from it.Summary
KEY POINTS:
- If you got close enough to a black hole, you would realize that time has warped (known as ‘time dilation').
- The 'event horizon,' is the region beyond which no information—or light—can ever escape.
- Black holes could be a crucial link in the story that gets from the Big Bang, to us.
