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ISBN: 9780134091983

Author: Hewitt

Publisher: PEARSON CO

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A black hole is

(a) an empty region of space with a huge gravitational field.
(b) a small region that has the mass of many galaxies.
(c) the remains of a giant collapsed star.
(d) as large as its photon sphere.

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