There is a misconception: Light cannot escape a black hole for gravitational reason (not to mention that gravity does not exist, it is a not a force, read up General Relativity). The real reason is that the space-time curvature does simply not provide a way for the light to go back. Same reason you can&#x27;t go to the end of the universe if the universe would be a sphere.<p>Also if someone likes to talk about black holes it is good to remind people that it is not a hole...as the article mentions its a region, to be more precise it is a region in space-time that is cut off from ours. The whole issue is not just spacial but also temporal, that is usually the point when your brain gives up understanding the whole problem.<p>A good description would be: a black hole is the collection of events that do happen outside our space-time&#x2F;universe. This also explains some of the paradoxes near the event horizon.