I don’t really get how somthing that’s small makes it a black hole.
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Think about a trampoline. It sits mostly flat but can move up and down some.
If you lay flat on the trampoline you will change how the material sits and it will move downward, it won’t be by a lot, because your weight is spread out.
If you stand on the trampoline your weight is concentrated in one spot for the material moves even more, and you find yourself sinking down more, towards the ground. If someone put marbles onto the trampoline they would roll towards you
It’s the same with a black hole, which is basically a huge amount of mass concentrated into a very small point. This causes the ‘fabric’ of space to bend. But now instead of marbles it is planets, stars, and even light that ‘rolls’ into the bend in the fabric of space, and so everything gets smashed into the black hole, and the bend gets bigger and bigger. The more mass the black hole ‘catches’ the bigger it gets and the more it distorts the space around it.
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