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We all know that black holes gobble up anything and everything that passes through their event horizons. However, the exact moment something moves past that point of no return and is sucked into a black hole is not well understood as it has never before been observed. That is until now.

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00:00We all know that black holes gobble up anything and everything that passes over their event
00:08horizons. However, the exact moment something is sucked into a black hole is not well understood,
00:12as it has never been observed before. Until now. Einstein theorized decades ago that there
00:17would be a particular point in time and space that an object would stop orbiting a black hole
00:21and fall into it. Now, physicists say they have found proof of this plunging region in x-ray data.
00:26When objects fall into black holes, they don't go straight in, but rather they first orbit it,
00:31like water down a drain. However, there has to be a point when that object gets so close,
00:35it can no longer move around the black hole and must fall in. While observing Maxi 1820 plus 070,
00:41a black hole around eight and a half times the size of the sun, which resides around 10,000 light
00:46years away, physicists believe they have observed exactly that moment. The black hole is currently
00:51siphoning material away from its companion star, and researchers noticed there were extra outbursts
00:55of light they couldn't account for. They now say this light is evidence of what they call
00:59a plunging region, or a particular area of the black hole where matter and light effectively
01:04disappear forever, with the researchers adding, this final plunge of plasma happens at the very
01:09edge of a black hole and shows matter responding to gravity in its strongest form possible.

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