... researchers argue that it's of utmost importance to unravel the nature of black holes, lest we someday begin to worship them. Sounds ridiculous, but whole segments of humankind have often revered the unknowable, venerating that which cannot be tested experimentally. Come to think of it, many still do in twenty-first-century society. Eric Chaisson
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If we think about the nature of black holes, we will start to worship them. It is because we cannot test black holes and we cannot see them. We only know what goes on in the center of a black hole because of what we see around it. What we see around black holes could be a bunch of stars falling towards it or a small planet falling into it or a planet that is slowly rotating and falling into it. We have no way of knowing what goes on inside a black hole because if you go inside a black hole, you might not come back!

Source: Epic Of Evolution: Seven Ages Of The Cosmos

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