Black Holes

This article was extremely interesting and remarkably easy to read for me. The author did a fantastic job of explaining black holes with a tough balance of hard facts about a topic I could never hope to fully comprehend with simple comparisons to daily life that helped me better understand the significance of black holes. The structure of this essay made me really feel like I was being taken on a journey by which I would have learned something in the end. The author started off with great comparisons of events similar to the creation of black holes to get the reader interested. He then continued these comparisons until finally getting to the black holes, in which the reader can understand just how truly unbelievable they are. The next section of the essay goes into giving the history of science of black holes. After the history section the author gets to the most important part of the essay; his attempt at explaining black holes in a simple way for the reader to hopefully understand. Again, I thought the author did a great job here in explaining black holes in a simple matter for us to understand while at the same time, not making us as readers feel like he is talking down to us as curious 4 year olds. The ending of the article was my favorite part. I loved how the author left us with an abstract, open-ended thought to really make us as the reader go crazy. The thought of us being in one of those black holes is just absurd to think… or is it? We can never really know the answer to that and the more we as readers think about it after reading the article, the more I appreciate the authors technique in writing this piece.