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The rocket remains motionless. A silent tug-of
Suddenly, the computer announces… war is taking place. On one side is the terrible

gravitational pull of the black hole. On the other
side is the power of the super new-generation
rocket. The computer announces,...

Holding at 1 kilometre.
500 metres away from
event horizon. Maximum
Pulling away. 1 kilometre,
power. Holding. Holding.
1.5 kilometres,
Holding. Holding...
2 kilometres away from
event horizon. Moving
away from black hole.

The three friends, who have been clinging to Reyhaan also had a question.
each other all this while, let go and drop to their
seats. All they want is to return home. To Earth.
Maya makes sure the spaceship is on the right
course and then asks…
What happens
when something
Ava, what like a rocket ship
happened just falls into a black
now? What exactly hole? Seriously?
is a black hole?

Well, it is sucked into
the center of the
black hole and is torn
When a star larger into nothing,
than the sun dies, it
collapses into itself. It event horizon: an
imaginary boundary
squeezes into nothing
around black hole
and becomes like a beyond which no He and Maya realise that they have had a
hole in space. light can escape narrow escape.

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