Is something eating the universe? (Black holes)

Published: May 27, 2022, 12:01 p.m.

Black holes are small regions of space where a great amount of matter is packed in and their gravitational pull is so strong that nothing, not even light can escape. 

But what’s inside a black hole? What would happen to someone if they got sucked in? And are they eating up the universe?

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