What is a black hole?

The answer is a bad holiday destination. A very bad holiday destination. If you have found this because you are falling towards one then let me summarise the good and bad news for you.

Good news:

There’s scientific reasoning that suggests falling into a black hole could deposit you somewhere else in space time so you could end up back in time… pretty cool.

Bad news:

You are about to experience spaghettification so the chances of you surviving the trip is slight, very slight, some would say non existent but i’m an optimist.

As a consolation lets find out exactly what a black hole is so at least you know what it is that a stretched you as long as a football field. This video explains what a black hole is and how it formed: