Even though a black hole is a star, none of the light it shines ever escapes past the event horizon; that’s why it’s black. The only way to view a black hole’s singularity is to go beyond the event horizon and see for yourself. However, even if you had an impossibly strong spacesuit that kept you from being stretched into a piece of astronaut spaghetti, you could never tell anybody about what you saw. Once you pass the event horizon, signals you broadcast can’t escape the black hole’s pull—neither can you. Traveling beyond the edge of the event horizon is like stepping off the edge of the
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