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itsmyluck

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Describe the properties of space in the vicinity of a black hole.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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What is a rotation curve?
 
  A) a precise description of the shape of a star's orbit around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy
  B) a graph showing how orbital velocity depends on distance from the center for a spiral galaxy
  C) a curve used to decide whether a star's orbit places it in the disk or the halo of a spiral galaxy
  D) a graph that shows a galaxy's mass on the vertical axis and size on the horizontal axis



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Answer to Question 1

The geometry of space is warped or curved near a black hole. The gravitational field is so overwhelmingly large that the curvature of space is extreme, so extreme that space folds over on itself at the event horizon. Further away from the black hole, gravity from it is weaker and the curvature of space is less.

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