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[-] Skua@kbin.earth 40 points 2 days ago

To be fair I think "light can't escape" thing really just is that wild, it's pretty captivating. The idea of it being the death of a star, one of the most important things to all life we know about, only adds to that sense. Stars are massive billion-year explosions, yes, but they also bring warmth and light and beauty. Black holes are the death of all of that, even if it's not technically more dangerous from the same distance

[-] scintilla@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Especially since we still don't know how information preservation works in a black hole. There are ideas yes but we still aren't sure if any of them are even right.

[-] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

It's not that light can't escape that is scary it's that the future of anything passing the event horizon changes to eventually end up in the singularity. Black holes are not just death, most of the things in the universe are death to us, black holes are literally the end of time.