Black "holes"

In many, many shows and movies, the black hole is a literal hole. Or is it? A few months ago, Interstellar hit the theaters and surprised some of the audience with a spherical black hole. Was this accurate? Well, according to Neil deGrasse Tyson, this movie shows "Einstein’s Curvature of Space as no other feature film has shown" before. So, in short, yes. But then why did people call it a black "hole"? Well, it resulted in part from the idea that it was like a bottomless pit, sucking in anything that came within a certain distance called the event horizon.  To escape this suck, an object would have to move at a speed "equal to the speed of light, and since relativity says that nothing can travel faster than light, once anything passes within this distance ... , it cannot escape", and so it'd be sucked into the pit, almost like a hole (ast.cam.ac.uk). Isn't that amazing? This basically means that theoretically, it is IMPOSSIBLE to escape it at any conceivable speed you can imagine! Do you know what the speed of light is?

669,600,000 miles per HOUR! That is 111,600,000 miles per MINUTE

&

  186,000 miles per SECOND!

The Flash, Superman, Zoom, Sonic, and every other fast superhero COMBINED couldn't beat that!

Verdict: FALSE
BUT MY MIND IS BLOWN