This post is written by guest blogger Savannah Cordova, a writer with Reedsy . In her spare time, Savannah enjoys reading contemporary fiction and writing short stories. She’s a big fan of plot twists and surprise endings (when they’re done right).
With the excitement surrounding the first photograph of a black hole being released, I thought it’d be interesting to examine our current understanding of black holes and their various faculties. Even though the black hole in that image, Powehi (meaning “embellished dark source of unending creation”–chills, right?), exists in a galaxy some 54 million light years away, that doesn’t mean all black holes are quite so far from us. Nor is it entirely impossible that a black hole could wreak havoc on our corner o
This story, as you may have already guessed, entails a black hole destroying the moon. But here’s the twist: the black hole wasn’t formed from a massive collapsed star, as most black holes are . Instead, it’s a product of human creation.