What's Inside of a Black Hole? - Bill Wellington

What's Inside of a Black Hole? Lyrics

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What’s inside of a black hole, black hole?
What’s inside of a black hole, black hole?
Oh, it may be the strangest thing you find in outer space.
It could swallow an entire planet and never leave a trace.
Yes, I’m talking about a black hole, a great big cosmic drain.
Where everything is falling, falling, falling,
Never to be seen again.
Now a black hole begins as a star in the sky about eight times the size of our sun.
It’s a giant nuclear furnace, powered by hydrogen.
But there is a terrible price to pay, for all that burning gas.
For this bright star is surely doomed by its own tremendous mass.
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Now the star will shine for a very long time, five billion years or so.

But even the hottest star in the sky, someday will lose its glow.
Then the awesome power of gravity will have to have its day.
With a pull so tight, even light could never get away.
Collapsing in an instant with a phenomenal burst of light,
The star becomes a super nova, shining through the night,
Brighter than a galaxy that’s a hundred billion suns.
And even though the star’s now the size of a dime it still weighs a zillion tons.
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This tiny star still has not lost its gravitational pull.
It becomes a stellar stomach that never could be full.
Eating every morsel within the vicinity
And scientists think that a whole lot of stars have met this destiny.
Now you don’t have to worry that a black hole could get us.
At least for several billion years I say that now because
The future of the universe is beyond all our control
And one day it may all be part of a giant black hole.
What’s inside of a black hole black hole?
What’s inside of a black hole?
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Lyrics submitted by Naomi Renee Calhoun.