Its event horizon, the outer edge inside which not even light can escape from the black hole's gravitational pull, would be only about 7.5 million kilometres.

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At these energies and distances, gravity is not the dominant force in a black hole.

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Even if the EU elites have a desire to continue flinging billions of euros into the fiscal black hole that Greece has become, the taxpayers supplying those euros do not.

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Much of the time Roger looks either haunted or absent, not a black hole but a gray one.

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However, even if the ball of plasma is a black hole, it is not thought to pose a threat.

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It's not because there was a black hole and you needed more money and therefore investment income is the best way to plug it.

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It was that pulsars are rotating neutron stars, the super-dense last stage of collapse of a star not quite heavy enough to form a black hole.

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