A black hole is where the conventional 'laws' of nature do not apply. Whole stars can vanish within black holes, crushed out of existence. But where does their matter go? To another universe? To another time? What is a black hole?
A giant star flares up and dies. It collapses and its core is crushed together with enormous force. It becomes smaller and more dense until it vanishes from sight, as if down a bottomless well in the universe. It is now a black hole.
At the centre of a black hole, the original matter of the star has been compressed to an infinitely small volume. But it has become infinitely dense, and exerts an incredibly high gravitational force which sucks in anything in its path; asteroids, planets, suns, even light.
There are many theories about black holes. Maybe time slows down and finally stops at the black hole's edge. Or maybe it's a space-time corridor. Or time is warped completely.
Walt Disney Productions have taken one of these theories and made it the climax of their biggest ever production, The Black Hole, starring Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms and Yvette Mimieux.
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