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== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Applying</span> == '''Calculating the 'Schwarzschild Radius' (The size of a black hole):''' <syntaxhighlight lang="python"> def calculate_event_horizon(mass_kg): """ R_s = (2 * G * M) / c^2 """ G = 6.674e-11 # Gravitational constant c = 299792458 # Speed of light radius = (2 * G * mass_kg) / (c ** 2) return radius # If Earth were crushed into a black hole: earth_mass = 5.972e24 # kg r_earth = calculate_event_horizon(earth_mass) print(f"Earth's Black Hole Radius: {r_earth*1000:.2f} mm") # To become a black hole, the entire Earth would have to fit # inside a marble smaller than 1 centimeter! </syntaxhighlight> ; Black Hole Milestones : '''Cygnus X-1''' β The first object widely accepted as a black hole (discovered in 1971). : '''LIGO Discovery (2015)''' β The first detection of Gravitational Waves from two merging black holes. : '''Event Horizon Telescope (2019)''' β The first actual "photo" of a black hole's shadow (in the galaxy M87). : '''Information Paradox''' β Stephen Hawking's famous question: if you throw a book into a black hole, is the information in the book gone forever? </div> <div style="background-color: #8B4500; color: #FFFFFF; padding: 20px; border-radius: 8px; margin-bottom: 15px;">
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