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Crash Course Astronomy
Black Holes: Crash Course Astronomy #33
Season 1
Episode 33
Stellar mass black holes form when a very massive star dies, and its core collapses. Black holes come in different sizes, but for all of them, the escape velocity is greater than the speed of light, so nothing can escape, not matter or light.
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