White is said to contain all colors; black is described as the absence of color. But in outer space, lurking everywhere in the universe, are giant "black holes," so powerful that they suck in everything around them: stars, planets, even light itself with all of its composite colors. How can they be called "black holes" when they swallow light? Physics was never my favorite subject. The answers to the questions are in the equations and theories of our brightest minds, or would they be our darkest minds?

This image began as a quick shot inside a light tunnel at Disney World’s Epcot in the late 1980s. I don’t know if the light tunnel is still there with its array of colored bulbs arching overhead like a kaleidoscopic Conestoga wagon, but this black hole of light is much more intriguing.

© 2007 George J. Bancroft Sr.