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Sean Explains Black Holes
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Sean explains what a black hole is.
Sean explains to Jet, Sydney, Mindy, and Sunspot what a black hole is.
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Ready Jet Go
Sean Explains Black Holes
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Sean explains to Jet, Sydney, Mindy, and Sunspot what a black hole is.
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that sucks stuff into it.
Like a vacuum.
- How does it do that?
- And how did it get there?
- And how does my hair look today?
[Sunspot grumbles] Oh.
Not the right time?
- Good questions.
Or, two of them are.
How black holes work has a lot to do with gravity.
Stars collapse and become black holes-- and the gravity inside of a black hole is so strong, nothing can get out of it.
It can squish a star down to a tiny area.
One single black hole could fit tons of stars into it, but really smushed-up stars.
- Wow, Sean.
That'’s so cool.
How did you learn all this?
- My mom taught me about '’em.
And she said black holes are really far away.
Nowhere near our solar system.
- Heh.
Well, that'’s good.
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