Sethanne Howard

Mar 28, 2024 | daily.jstor.org | Don Lincoln |Sethanne Howard |Charles Choi |S. Bradley Cenko

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. In all of the Universe, there is nothing quite so mind-bending as a black hole. Black holes are usually the corpses of long-dead stars—ones that lived and died in a blinding flash called a supernova. This cataclysmic explosion crushes the core to densities billions of times greater than any substance found on Earth.