Black Holes: Where Light Dies and Reality Breaks Down - Explained

A point in space where light cannot escape. Where time stops. Where the rules of reality break down.

Black holes aren't just astronomical objects—they're windows into the fundamental nature of existence itself.

🌌 The Black Hole Timeline:
1783: John Michell imagines "dark stars"
1915: Einstein's equations predict their existence
1916: Karl Schwarzschild calculates the event horizon
1964: First X-ray source detected (Cygnus X-1)
1971: Cygnus X-1 confirmed as the first known black hole
1974: Stephen Hawking discovers black holes emit radiation
2015: First gravitational waves detected from colliding black holes
2019: Event Horizon Telescope captures the first image of a black hole
2022: Sagittarius A* photographed at our galaxy's center
Today: Mysteries remain—singularities, information paradox, quantum gravity

Discover how massive stars collapse into points of infinite density. Learn why nothing—not even light—can escape their grasp. Understand the paradoxes that challenge our understanding of physics.

From theoretical curiosity to photographed reality—black holes reveal the universe at its most extreme. Where gravity becomes absolute. Where spacetime curves back on itself. Where our equations encounter infinity.

The journey from dark stars to gravitational waves shows us something profound: the universe is stranger than we ever imagined.

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