Chapter 3

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They walked in and saw the house. The living room was a decent size and there were pictures on the walls of a little girl and man looking at the stars, or through a telescope, or even just the father looking like he is giving her a lesson. And the same little girl drawing outer space.

"(Y/n)'s room is this way~... Be quiet, her mother is probably sleeping~" Akira whispered. They all tiptoed to her room and once the boys walked in they were amazing.

Her room was somewhat clean. There were drawings of space on the wall and posters of NASA or space all over the walls. Hanging from the roof were planets and stars. She had a bookshelf based on outer space and her bed covers were the galaxy. On her desk in the corner of her room was a small figurine of the known solar system. It looked lovely. She had a couple of tools on the desk as well. The floor was tile with a carpet shaped like Saturn. The walls had planets painted on them and in front of her desk was a pair of big handprints and a pair of small handprints.

"Her room is so... Adorable!" Nico said.

"There is so much here about outer space... It looks like she has been studying on it" Rock said.

"For how long has she been studying?" Jyugo mumbled.

"Ever since I was in preschool" (Y/n) said walking in with her telescope in hand. She carefully placed it at the window and set it up to it was looking out the window.

"She is pretty smart really... She excels in science class" Akira said. "So the teachers put her in honors science and now she has the teachers amazing by her knowledge of space"

Akira walked over to (Y/n)'s closest and opened it revealing her clothes and a dog food bag. Akira scooped a cup of dog food out for Candy with the measuring cup, (Y/n) keeps in the bag, and put it in Candy's bowl. Candy started to eat and Akira closed the closet once again. "Hey, I was wondering if tomorrow after the planetarium you wanted to go to a gambling place I found," Akira said turning to her friend.

"Isn't it illegal for minors to go to gambling places?" (Y/n) said.

"Yes, but this one doesn't care for some reason. I heard a group of boys talking about it at school. I got them to tell me where it is and I wanted to check it out. Of course, we have nothing to gamble on top of that we don't how-" Akira was cut off by (Y/n).

"I'm good at card games if that counts for something," She said. "Like, Uno, goldfish, speed, joker, card against humanity"

"Uno? How did you know Uno played card games?" Rock asked.

"... Uhh... She didn't Uno is a card game," Akira said. "She truly is the master at it... And her luck is scary with that game too... But I don't think they will be playing any of those games there... Plus, I don't want to get into too much trouble while we are there if we aren't allowed"

"Then why go in the first place?" (Y/n) said. "You are turning 18 soon... So not wait a couple of months?"

"Because I'm not patient," Akira said. "And dad wouldn't let me go to a gambling area even if I was 20! So I'm not going to wait for him to say it's okay"

"Sure, I'll go" (Y/n) mumbled walking over to her bookshelf and pulling out a book tossing it to Akira. "Only if you read page 89 all the way to 102 in that book. It talks about all the moons the planets have"

"What~?" Akira whined. "That sounds boring~, at least block holes or something~"

"A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out. The gravity is so strong because matter has been squeezed into a tiny space. This can happen when a star is dying. Because no light can get out, people can't see black holes. They are invisible. Space telescopes with special tools can help find black holes. The special tools can see how stars that are very close to black holes act differently than other stars. Black holes can be big or small. Scientists think the smallest black holes are as small as just one atom. These black holes are very tiny but have the mass of a large mountain. Mass is the amount of matter, or "stuff," in an object. Another kind of black hole is called "stellar." Its mass can be up to 20 times more than the mass of the sun. There may be many, many stellar-mass black holes in Earth's galaxy. Earth's galaxy is called the Milky Way. The largest black holes are called "supermassive." These black holes have masses that are more than 1 million suns together. Scientists have found proof that every large galaxy contains a supermassive black hole at its center. The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is called Sagittarius A. It has a mass equal to about 4 million suns and would fit inside a very large ball that could hold a few million Earths. Scientists think the smallest black holes formed when the universe began. Stellar black holes are made when the center of a very big star falls in upon itself or collapses. When this happens, it causes a supernova. A supernova is an exploding star that blasts part of the star into space. Scientists think supermassive black holes were made at the same time as the galaxy they are in. A black hole can not be seen because strong gravity pulls all of the light into the middle of the black hole. But scientists can see how the strong gravity affects the stars and gas around the black hole. Scientists can study stars to find out if they are flying around, or orbiting, a black hole. When a black hole and a star are close together, high-energy light is made. This kind of light can not be seen with human eyes. Scientists use satellites and telescopes in space to see the high-energy light. Black holes do not go around in space eating stars, moons, and planets. Earth will not fall into a black hole because no black hole is close enough to the solar system for Earth to do that. Even if a black hole the same mass as the sun were to take the place of the sun, Earth still would not fall in. The black hole would have the same gravity as the sun. Earth and the other planets would orbit the black hole as they orbit the sun now. The sun will never turn into a black hole. The sun is not a big enough star to make a black hole. NASA is using satellites and telescopes that are traveling in space to learn more about black holes. These spacecraft help scientists answer questions about the universe" (Y/n) said.

"Wait, what?" Akira said.

"I memorized the whole section about black holes there. There isn't much information we know about black holes just yet" (Y/n) said as if it was nothing. 


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