True/False: A black hole is black because it is dark in space.
False-It is black because its gravity pulls in everything and doesn't allow it to escape, including light.
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True/False: Ton-618 is 2 times larger than our Milky Way Galaxy.
True
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True/False: Black Hole J2157 eats an entire star in under 12 hours.
False-It eats it in less than a second!
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True/False: Once pulled into the Event Horizon, nothing can escape a black hole.
True...at least as far as we know!
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True/False: Black Hole J2157 is the most luminous (brightest) black hole every recorded.
True
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True/False: Holmberg 15A is about 700 million light-years from Earth.
True
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True/False: The weirdest black holes ever found is found very close to our Solar System.
False-it is over 12.5 billion light years away from us.
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True/False: Holmberg 15A is a small black hole.
False-it is one of the biggest.
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True/False: Ton-618 cannot outshine our Sun.
False-It is more the 140 trillion times brighter than our Sun.
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True/False: Ton-618 is very far away from Earth.
True-about 10 to 18 billion light-years away.
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True/False: If Black Hole J2157 were sitting in the center of our Milky Way Galaxy (instead of Sagittarius A), it would be visible from Earth, but no life would be able to exist on our planet due to all the X-ray light it emits.
True
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True/False: Quasars are the same thing as black holes.