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	Q& A: Black Holes
                        
                    
            Q:
               Do all black holes has to be massive objects? Do all black holes
               have to be dense?
                
               
               A:
               
               For the various types of black holes known to exist, see: http://chandra.harvard.edu/xray_sources/bh_midmass.html
                If you were on a space ship that ventured beyond the event
               horizon of a supermassive black hole, it might not seem too
               different from ordinary space. However, that feeling would soon
               pass, as your spaceship would be pulled in a death spiral toward
               the center of the black hole in matter of a minutes.
                
              
                
            
               
               
   
        

