Well that makes sense.. I have some more newbie questions. I've read that black holes grow larger as they consume more things. Doesn't that mean that the matter is not getting anhilated? Is a black hole actually made of some sort of matter then? I don't see how "nothingness" can really grow...
From my limited understanding, black holes supposedly have "event horizons" where everything near them just falls inside the black hole and becomes nothingness, totally anhilated. If this is the case then how is it that black holes emit stuff, like radio waves? If they suck things in and then...