Black Holes? 4

Title: Black Holes? 4
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Black Holes? 4

Introduction Black holes, if they truly exist, are very strange objects indeed. Imagine, if you will, an object resting in the vast emptiness of space, totally undetectable except for its gravitational pull. Imagine an object so massive, and so densely packed, that not even light can escape its immense gravity. Now imagine flying toward one of these objects and circling around it at some distance; light from the stars behind it becomes bent by its …showed first 75 words of 2575 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 2575 total…the gravitational constant, and v1 is the radial component of the velocity of one of the stars. If both of the stars' radial velocities are measured, as with visual binaries, the equation can be manipulated so that both masses can be determined. In our case, however, only one of the stars can be seen, so in order to determine the mass of the unseen object, we must know the mass of the star. For m1

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