14 Fun Facts About Black Holes: Educational Version

By Jeannie Meekins

TV and movies will have you believing that black holes are huge holes in space and anything that falls into them is lost for all time – possibly falling into another universe or another time, or even falling forever.
You may think that black holes run around in space like huge vacuum cleaners sucking up everything in their path. This is not true.
But what actually is a black hole and what do they do? This book will help you find out.

The Educational Version has activities that meet Common Core Curriculum Standards.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: LearningIsland.com
• Release date: Sep 19, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301669349

Jeannie Meekins

Jeannie Meekins is an Australian writer who lives with her children and a couple of cats who think they own the computer. And if her dog could read, he’d be jealous, so it’s lucky that he can’t. Jeannie has also written over 10 books for children, many available through LearningIsland.com

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14 FUN FACTS ABOUT

BLACK HOLES

By Jeannie Meekins

A LearningIsland.com

15 - Minute Book

We have used many sources to research these facts and they are accurate at time of publishing. The more we explore the wonders of space and our universe, the more information we are discovering.

Editor: Jennifer Robinson

Title page pictures by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Smashwords Edition

Text (c) Copyright 2007 Jeannie Meekins. All rights reserved.

Published by LearningIsland.com.

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14 Fun Facts About Black Holes / Jeannie Meekins

Summary: A brief look at Black Holes.

1. Black Holes. Juvenile Literature. 2. Space. Juvenile Literature.

Written in Australia. Book created in USA.

Words: 2281

Reading Level: 6.0

Ages 9 and up.

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TV and movies will have you believing that black holes are huge holes in space and anything that falls into them is lost for all time – possibly falling into another universe or another time, or even falling forever.

You may think that black holes run around in space like huge vacuum cleaners sucking up everything in their path. This is not true.

But what actually is a black hole and what do they do? This book will help you find out.

A hole in the ground (Richard Minske)

Fact 1: A Black Hole is not a hole

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