Exoplanets
Image sourced from https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/kepler-7b/
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Welcome to CCCL, you can have a look at all the facts we gathered togther. You can expect facts about black holes, exoplanets and rogue planets.
Photograph by Dimitar Todorov/Alamy; sourced from https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/apr/06/supersized-black-hole-discovery-forces-universal-rethink
Rogue Planets
A Rogue planet is basically a planet floating around in deep space.
A black hole is a star of which the core has collapsed and become a sort of big space vacuum.
There is actually a black hole in the centre of our galaxy.
Its name is Sagittarius A, it's between 25,800 light years to 27,000 light years from Earth.
Another example is TON-618, it is 18.2 BILLION light years away from Earth.
Another fact about TON- 618 is that it's only 0.04 light years big.
PHOENIX A + Messier 15
Phoenix A is 100 billion solar masses. It's also the 2nd largest black hole ever discovered. Phoenix A might be bigger than TON-618 but it has yet to be proven.
Another black hole is Messier 15, it measures 4,000 solar masses and is classed as an intermediate -mass black hole.
Black holes don't actually suck stuff in. Matter passes an object called the event horizon due to extreme gravity. The event horizon is like a black hole's ring like Saturn's rings just significantly larger.
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