The great news about black holes is that we probably won't have to worry about their consequences in our life time, but they're an incredibly fascinating subject. I still remember when I was a child, picking up a book about the solar system and reading "and in several billion years, the sun will explode and engulf the Earth", which has followed a bit of a "why bother building it on Earth?" methodology to my existence.
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