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Formerly called "frozen stars", black holes are the entrophic metamorphosis stage of some aberrant stars. After they haphazardly exhaust their fuel (their lifestream energy supply), they go into hibernation, falling back upon themselves in self- preservation, retreating inward. Going into cryogenic stasis after all their power resources are exhausted, these stars collapse and shrivel up. Particularly massive stars whither on the stellar vine so injudiciously that they become infinitesimally small and infinitely dense. A spherical event horizon demarcates the boundaries of a black hole. Unable to illuminate the darkness inside, once lightbeams cross the threshold they are inexorably drawn towards a singularity at the center of the black hole.
A singularity that will coldheartedly
absorb their precious lifeforce. But . . . not before they manage to radiate a
particle wave warning to future travellers.
The horizon is a place of balanced escape velocity and speed of light, where simultaneous motionlessness coexists with spiraling expansion. Escape velocity depends both on the gravity (the manifest curvature of time and space) of a planet's mass and the distance from the planet's center. The lighter the planet and the further the distance from the center, the smaller the escape velocity becomes. If you throw a stone hard enough into the air with sufficient speed, it will escape the planet's gravity and continue on a perpetual ascension into the heavens. Conversely, when the density of a planet's or star's mass is intensely compacted in an extremely tight space, like a black hole, its escape velocity exceeds that of the speed of light.
Unless the speed of an
object is accelerated beyond the speed of light, it is trapped in a massive
gravitational vortex, like a fly in the web of a black widow spider. Then, only
the speed of "Spirit" can provide the escape velocity needed to cross back over
the horizon threshold.
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