a real image of one of the most mysterious objects in the universe the black hole. black holes there like cosmic vacuum cleaners sucking up anything that comes through close any matter that crosses the so-called event horizon is gone forever. black holes are created when dying stars collapse in on themselves or when two stars collide and their masses merge. the gravitational forces become so massive that the matters we used into his think point called the singularity. black holes start small but as they suck up more and more material in their path they can begin to grow and eventually become super massive black holes like the one at the center of our galaxy the milky way. with the mass and the gravitational pull of four million stars like our sun. so far astronomers have