If I remember Lovecraft correctly the whole idea was that human mind can’t comprehend such things. And black holes fit very nicely.
Comment on Black Holes
Skua@kbin.earth 4 days ago
I suppose cosmic horror elder gods like Cthulhu and such are not all that far removed from the idea of a black hole. Particularly the ones that are less involved with Earth than Cthulhu is. Nobody is ramming a black hole with a fishing boat. But the early writing on them was done at about the same time as a lot of the foundational theoretical work on black holes (not the earliest stuff but I can believe that the writers didn't know about it)
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
black holes seem pretty comprehensible to me? like there’s a lot of math and programming that’s way harder to wrap your head around
Natanael@infosec.pub 4 days ago
Also, extremely pedantic note - black holes were predicted by looking at what happens in the math at extreme densities, long before black holes were actually observed in space
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
And some of the scientists who worked on those early calculations assumed it meant the physics was incomplete!
Sergio@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah, Azathoth fits the bill in many ways.