Not only does it swallow anything that comes too near it but no one lives to tell the tale ... there are footprints leading in, and no footprints leading out ... If black holes weren’t real, I think the science-fiction writers would have wanted to invent them.

— Saul Perlmutter, Black holes are even weirder than you imagined (2024)

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/black-holes-are-even-weirder-than-you-imagined

Quoted by Rivka Galchen in a 2024 New Yorker article.

Topics: physics