Black Hole

By Kuru

Some people are like black holes.

Without your knowledge, they pull you in, absorb all your light. You fight, you flare, you try to shine brighter — but nothing reflects back. Because some things are too dense, too consuming. Even light doesn't return after touching a black hole's grave.

I first thought this in physics class. Sir was teaching about escape speed — the minimum speed with which an object has to be projected so that it escapes a planet's gravity. At escape speed, its mechanical energy becomes zero. And here's the fascinating part: escape speed doesn't depend on the object's mass, or even its direction.

Then came the fact that caught me deeper: on the surface of a black hole, the escape speed is greater than the speed of light. Which means, not even photons can escape it. For a planet to have an atmosphere, the thermal speed of gas molecules has to be less than that planet's escape speed. But on a black hole? That possibility doesn't exist.

And suddenly, it clicked. Maybe people like that exist too — so dense with their own gravity that they consume others without giving anything back. You don't beat them by burning brighter.

You save yourself by walking away.

By Kuru