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12. Black Holes (26 points)
Nominated by: handsomeboy2012 (1/5 remaining)


Importance: 10
Fear: 8
Snake: 8

Now I'm no physicist or astronomer or scientist or anything like that, but it doesn't take a brainiac to see getting sucked into a black hole would not be a very pleasant time for anybody. Best case, maybe you live through the process and are now in an alien universe with no way of returning home; worst case, your atoms get painfully burnt up one by one until you are nothing. A black hole is the ultimate horror villain on a cosmic scale: an unstoppable juggernaut destroying all it surveys, even light isn't safe. It's also completely unobservable aside from the effects it causes, at it does not reflect light whatsoever. Much of what we know about black holes is based on theory, so there's a still a lot of mystery left to unpack regarding the phenomenon. It's just as fascinating as it is scary, and on Earth it is quite unlikely we would ever run into one, despite their dense presence at the center of our galaxy. However, we are still able to feel the effects of their feasts, mainly seen in the heating of gas and interstellar material which could prevent the forming of new stars or heat-up planets to dangerous levels. In the end, black holes are just another in the long line of things in space trying to kill us, but an interesting one nonetheless. Probably one of the most well-known uses of a black hole in horror fiction is in the film Event Horizon, where the titular ship creates an artificial black hole which ends up being a gateway to hell. Outside of horror, the black hole is featured immensely in many sci-fi short stories and film. It's all part of the fear and fun of predicting what a black hole could do to us if we passed through one, and pretty much anything be possible, which makes the black hole a perhaps under-appreciated icon of cosmic horror.
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