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Gravity keeps our feet planted on the ground as well as keeps everything, including water, from floating in air. Find out how you can create an anti-gravity environment.
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Lasers are used to cut precise patterns in glass and metal, to reshape corneas to correct poor vision, and to provide intense heat in controlled fusion experiments. But we also use lasers as very precise light sources in supermarket checkout lines, CD players, and to transmit most telephone signals.
But what is a laser? How is laser light different from regular light?
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Some scientists believe that there is a black hole in our very own Milky Way.
Black holes were once massive stars that used up all their fuel. As they died out, they collapsed inward due to the pull of their own gravity. The gravity of a black hole is so powerful that not even light can escape its pull! Once any matter falls into a black hole, it disappears from the visible Universe.
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