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   ocr: The point of no return from a black hole Space at the center of a black hole is so curved and distorted that everything 1S squashed into a single point of infinite density and time cones to a complete halt. Ata certain distance from the center, 111 any direction, 1S a point called the event horizon. Anything inside the event horizon would need to do the impossible. - travel faster than light to escape the gravitational pull of the black hole. Not even light can cross an event horizon to leave a black hole. So, when something has crossed an event horizon into a black hole, it will remain lost a ...