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To be fair I think "light can't escape" thing really just is that wild, it's pretty captivating. The idea of it being the death of a star, one of the most important things to all life we know about, only adds to that sense. Stars are massive billion-year explosions, yes, but they also bring warmth and light and beauty. Black holes are the death of all of that, even if it's not technically more dangerous from the same distance
The true death of that is more depressing than torturous: Heat Death.
It's not that light can't escape that is scary it's that the future of anything passing the event horizon changes to eventually end up in the singularity. Black holes are not just death, most of the things in the universe are death to us, black holes are literally the end of time.
Or they are passages to other universes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole#Einstein%E2%80%93Rosen_bridges
Still the end of time for our universe, like it mathematically is. And we haven't found any white hole in our universe yet despite it probably being much easier than finding black holes or most of the other stellar objects.
Could the big bang be a white hole? And doesn't it make sense the wormhole kind of meaning you "wait" in the black hole until the end of the universe and the beginning of a new one as it will look like time slows down for someone approaching a black hole for an outside observer but not for the person entering.
Especially since we still don't know how information preservation works in a black hole. There are ideas yes but we still aren't sure if any of them are even right.