Black holes are some of the densest objects in the universe.
Light cannot escape their event horizons because the holes gravitational pull is so intense.
Once it crosses over, it is stretched into oblivionorspaghettifiedin less than 13 seconds, Schnittman said.
A visualization of a flight towards—and into—a supermassive black hole.Gif:NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/J. Schnittman and B. Powell
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Are We Inside a Black Hole?
The first image of a black hole was published in 2019, of a supermassive black hole 6.5 billion times the Sun’s mass.Image:Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
