Black holes, often depicted as cosmic vacuum cleaners, have captured public imagination and fear alike. However, the reality of black holes is quite different from this popular portrayal. At their core, black holes are regions of space where matter is compressed to extreme densities, creating a gravitational pull so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from them. This intense gravitational pull is effective only at very close ranges. The edge of a black hole, known as the event horizon, is where time itself...