The first thing about black holes is that material spirals in to a black hole through an accretion disk — a disk of gas, dust, stars and planets that fall into orbit of the black hole.

Another cool thing about black holes is that the “point of no return” around a black hole is called the “event horizon”. This is the region where the gravity of the black hole overcomes the momentum of material spinning around it in the accretion disk. Once something crosses the event horizon, it is lost to the pull of the black hole.

Many of you are probebly wondering how black holes start. The way they start is when a star of enough mass collapses in upon itself.

Another intresting thing about black holes is that the massive gravitational influence of a black hole distorts space and time in the near neighbourhood. The closer you get to a black hole, the slower time runs.

A really cool fact about black holes is that Black holes are the only objects in the Universe that can trap light by sheer gravitational force.