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THE ASTORIAN • SATuRdAy, MAy 25, 2019
© 2019 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 35, No. 26
lack holes in space are hard to see. But
some black holes, especially super big
ones, stand out. They gather bright rings of
gas and other material.
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This year, a world-spanning network of
observatories, called the Event Horizon
Telescope (EHT), zoomed in on a huge
galaxy called M87 to create the first-ever
photograph of a black hole.
First Black Hole Photo
Photo: Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)
This super huge black hole is about
55 million light-years away in a
galaxy called M87.
While the existence of black holes
was first discussed by Albert Einstein
and other scientists a little more than
100 years ago, it wasn’t until this April
that a photograph of one was taken.
Black Holes and Time
Replace the missing words.
If an ___________ was able to get close
to a black hole ___________ and spend a
few _________ there, a strange thing
would happen when he or she returned to
their __________. Many years might have
_______ in Earth time while the astronaut
was ______ the black hole!
What is a black hole?
When a star implodes, it collapses
in on itself. The tremendous gravity
of this can create a black hole.
A whirlpool in water is similar in
some ways to a black hole. Both
have a core that sucks in whatever
is close by, which in a black hole
includes light.
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Don’t Let the Name
Black Hole Fool You!
A black hole is not empty. Rather, it is
a great amount of matter packed into a
very small area
— think of a
star ten times
more massive
than the sun
squeezed into
a sphere
approximately
the diameter of
New York City.
Packing all
that matter into
one little space
causes a huge
gravitational
field so strong
that nothing,
not even light,
can escape.
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It would be
like squashing
all the bricks, concrete, steel, wood and
glass of a large building into a tiny ball
smaller than the size of a pea.
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Katie Bouman, a 29-year old graduate student,
came up with the math and made it possible for the
EHT to capture the first photo of a black hole!
Spaghettification
What do noodles and spaghetti have to do with black holes? The closer one gets to a black hole, the
stronger the pull of its gravity. As the gravity pulls things towards the black hole, they get stretched out
like a long piece of spaghetti. That’s called spaghettification, or the noodle effect.
What’s the
area?
Area is the measure
of how much space
there is on a flat
surface. Practice
calculating area by
measuring the sides
of photographs in the
newspaper. To find
the area, multiply the
length by the height.
Here’s what a carrot might look like during spaghettification.
Draw what you think these things might look like if they went through spaghettification.
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The words black and hole are often used in compound words.
Those are words created by combining two smaller words. Use the
words floating in space to create compound words by combining
them with either the word BLACK or the word HOLE.
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the words in the puzzle.
TELESCOPE Find
How many of them can you
HORIZON
find on this page?
NETWORK
A E P O C S E L E T
GALAXY
L N P U L L V L B E
BLACK
R T O I E Y E I O N
EVENT
SPACE
N S G Z X M N H E H
LIGHT
E H B A I T T T E U
SUPER
T C L T I R W A S G
HOLE
N A A P R O O M T E
HUGE
TIME
G E C P R E I H A C
STAR
T E K K S U P E R D
PULL
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MATH
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Count all the exclamation points
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Which section has the most?
Why do you think this is?
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