Though “conventional wisdom,” according to the catalog description of “Black Holes: Race and the Cosmos,” holds that the “‘black’ in black holes has nothing to do with race,” astronomy professor Nicholas Battaglia and comparative literature professor Parisa Vaziri know better.

**** off you lunatics. Black holes are called black holes because their gravity is sufficient that even light cannot escape and thus, as there is no light reflecting off of them, they are functionally black colored!