In 1916, only a year after Albert Einstein had published his general theory of relativity, Karl Schwarzschild used mathematical calculations to show this: If sufficient mass could be placed into an extremely small volume, then this sufficiently dense mass would create a zone where gravity is so strong that nothing, including light, could escape from it. One hundred years later, scientists have actually imaged the shadow of such an object. They have also recorded the gravitational waves produced when two of these celestial bodies collide. However, the ultimate question (the ultimate unresolved question) in science about the fate of matter that crosses an event horizon of a black hole is still unanswered. The answer includes a long list of things: how atomic structure changes or gets stretched during the collapse of the star, spatial distortion due to relativistic time dilation, luminous rings of matter and debris surrounding the black hole, and the nature of the event horizon itself (which has no physical wall). It is simply becoming an irreversible relationship with the universe beyond the …