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How was the Black Hole discovered?

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Black holes can't be seen but you can see how something affects the area around the black holes, so that's really how they found a black hole.

Karl Schwarzchild is the man most often attributed with having discovered the black hole with a telescope.

how is that possible if you can't see a Black hole, how can you see it with a telescope?

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Black holes were hypothesized because there did not seem to be any limit to the amount of gravitational force that could occur as matter becomes increasingly dense, and therefore a collapsing star would at some point logically have a gravitational field so strong that no other force could overcome it. Later, astronomical observations yielded many observations which would be consistent with the existence of black holes generally located in the center of galaxies. We have not had the chance to observe a black hole at a sufficiently close range that we can be completely certain of its properties, however. Much of the theory of black holes remains speculative.

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