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Physics Basic Black Holes for Kids: Event Horizons Hawking Radiation Wormholes Time Dilation and Supermassive Giants Explained for Ages 8 12

Physics Basic Black Holes for Kids: Event Horizons Hawking Radiation Wormholes Time Dilation and Supermassive Giants Explained for Ages 8 12

Laudry, Khasan

Paperback

Series: Physics Kids Books, Book 18

Science & Nature

ISBN10: 369083094X
ISBN13: 9783690830942
Publisher: Khasan Laudry
Published: Apr 26 2026
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
What if the most powerful force in the universe is also the most mysterious - and your child could understand it today?

Black holes bend time, swallow light, and sit at the heart of every galaxy - including our own. This chapter-by-chapter guide walks young readers through the real science of black holes in clear, jargon-free language that curious minds aged 8 to 12 can genuinely follow and remember.

Inside these pages, your child will discover:

  • What a black hole actually is and why nothing - not even light - can escape its grip
  • How dying stars explode into supernovas and collapse into a singularity
  • Why the event horizon is called the point of no return
  • How gravity slows down time - and what that means for an astronaut near a black hole
  • The bizarre stretching effect called spaghettification and why it happens
  • How Stephen Hawking proved black holes can slowly shrink and disappear
  • Why a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* sits at the center of our Milky Way
  • How scientists photographed a real black hole for the very first time in 2019
  • What wormholes are and why Einstein's equations predict they could exist
  • How black holes helped shape galaxies and may have made life in the universe possible

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