Space exploration began with the launch of Sputnik and Astrophysics was born as the application of physics to the phenomena observed by Astronomy, which etymologically means laws of the stars.
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| White Hole |
A hypothetical object, never observed, which mathematically has properties inverse to those of a black hole and would be a place where matter spontaneously appears.
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