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[music throughout]] Narrator: Black Hole 101: How To Find A Black Hole.
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Though technically, black holes could just sneak up behind you, the likely won’t—the nearest known one is 3,000
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light-years away anyway. However, if you WERE to go looking for one,
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there are a couple of good ways to find them. First, black holes tend to mess
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with their environment, so you can sometimes use interesting clues, such as a bunch of stuff [ONSCREEN TEXT: “Orbiting Stars”]
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orbiting what appears to be…nothing. And second, there’s often [ONSCREEN TEXT: “Orbiting Stars”]
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glowing stuff orbiting around them caused by, well, when things get too close.
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Thanks for watching, and please…stay
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safe out there. [music ends]
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