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Birth of a Black Hole

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Red supergiant in spacetime fabric

Heavy and dense, the red supergiant is sunk deep in space-time, the four-dimensional fabric in which all objects in the universe, including us, are embedded and move within. Fusion continues until all elements are gone except iron.


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