warped (for kst) black holes came to life out of equations cosmic jokes with solemn implications the experts thought they were a bridge too far could not be real, they were just too bizarre could everything be infinitely small when time stands still, space has no place at all it seems a contradiction from the start a riddle with the cosmos at its heart but over time the evidence amassed as telescopes could peer through spaces vast revealing all the mysteries they hold where time and space upon themselves can fold what can you say of objects in the sky so deep and dark that light gets swallowed by o! curious and most pernicious elf that warped the universe back on itself where gravitation has the final say electromagnetism in its sway what ventures in shall never venture back and we shall have to call that region black if you should pass the threshold of that maw how could you tell the wondrous things you saw stories that would meet with consternation awesome power of spaghettification and should they ever dance in pas de deux as distance 'tween them ever smaller grew their energetic forces dissipate in waves of gravity that radiate and let their final merger wonders bring their energy a cosmic bell will ring and when this was empirically observed it got the recognition it deserved the singularity now long since past is echoed in these roles that have been cast a cosmic background present all along but that's a topic for another song ... rjh 24oct2026 ~ inspired by kip thorne, "the warped side of our universe : an odyssey through black holes, wormholes, time travel, and gravitational waves" new york, ny : liveright publishing company, 2023 cf :: misner, thorne, wheeler : gravitation. san francisco : w.h. freeman, 1973 style inspired by marc cooper, "flying fingers" https://suno.com/song/2b5bbf36-8ebc-4b65-9b93-893c733d8928 if i may say ... only a composition by marc has the gravity to support this topic ... 🙏 sound design by rjh and suno v6 illustration : "how do gravitational waves escape from a black hole?" courtesy of the simulating extreme spacetimes (sxs) project via ethan siegel https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-how-do-gravitational-waves-escape-from-a-black-hole-782eaa6005de nb : kip thorne shared the 2017 nobel prize in physics : with rainer weiss and barry barish : for contributions to the laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory (LIGO) detector and the first observation of gravitational waves
