A black hole is its event horizon, not the matter crushed to a point at the centre.

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• The singularity of a black hole is not a place at its centre but a moment in your future: falling in, you run out of time rather than out of room. SCSean Carroll22 Apr 2024
• A black hole is featureless in the way a fundamental particle is: charge, mass and spin are the whole of it, and no two differ in anything else. JLJanna Levin5 May 2025
• Black holes are not the same thing as dead stars; they are a more general and more fundamental phenomenon than the end state of a star. JLJanna Levin5 May 2025
• Inside a black hole the singularity is not a place you could steer around; it is a moment in your future you can no more avoid than time itself. JLJanna Levin5 May 2025
• The bigger the black hole, the less you would notice crossing its horizon, because curvature is harder to feel the larger it gets. JLJanna Levin5 May 2025

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