Pac Mans a simple protagonist.

He doesnt have a scruffy beard or a worried look in his eyes.

Hes doesnt sling out quips or one-liners.

Expanding black holes could be playing Pac Man with the universe

Thats sort of how black holes work.

They only do one thing: gobble up literally everything.

But, just like Pac Man, they can only eat the stuff thats right next to them.

Black holes and stars collide often and, usually, this results in cosmic mergers.

But what if black holes could actually start hunting stars down?

Obviously cosmic singularities arent going to grow… whatever it is that Pac Man uses to ambulate.

But maybe they could justgrow,like ever-increasing puddles of vacuum.

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The black holes are growing and becoming more powerful as the universe expands, basically.

Going back to our Pac Man analogy, this is a bit spooky.

At least the ghosts are safe until Pac Man gobbles up a power pellet.

Nothing escapes a black hole, not even light.

Of course, as one would imagine, black holes arent the best metal factories.

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