A black hole is a contradiction made manifest. A supermassive star collapses and shrinks into something too small to see with the naked eye, and yet it remains one of the most massive things in existence. The space occupied by the star, is left empty, yet the gravitational pull remains as though the star were still there.

The black hole is a gravitational sinkhole centered on a phantom star, from which nothing can escap, not even light itself. Many of my contemporaries believe that black holes will forever consume all that gravitates toward them and, in due time, they will engulf our entire universe.