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BLACK HOLES According to the theory of relativity, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. There would be a region from which it would be impossible for anything to escape. This region is called a black hole. This paper will discuss the creation and discovery of black holes and many other questions about the inescapable black hole. Pierre Simon first thought of black holes back in 1796. His initial findings were based on the now discredited theory of Newtonian gravity. Simon was still able to realize that light could not escape from the surface of a sufficiently massive body. Unfortunately, in Simon’s time, there was no way to test his idea. This idea was not actually determined until 1939, when J. Robert Oppenheimer and his student, Hartland Snyder, showed that a cold and sufficiently massive star must collapse indefinitely, becoming a black hole. Oppenheimer and Snyder could have never figured this out without the earlier work of Einstein and his general theory of relativity, which states that nothing can travel at the speed of light or faster. Further studies were taken by a German astronomer, Karl Schwarzchild. Using Einstein’s equations as a guide, he found that the effects of relativity begin