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Philosophies of Non-Space: Black Holes

Black holes, centres of infinitely dense matter with the gravitational pull to make God shit sideways; are they space, or non-space in space?
Start by thinking of space time, think of it as a mountain range dictated by gravity and density, Einsteinian relativity. Everything in the universe effects it’s pattern, for example the moon would be falling into the earth’s valley, whilst the earth would fall into say the sun and so on.So as we wonder the mountain range of space time we happen across beautiful vistas of deep crevasses in the fabric of the universe with floating balls of gas, foreign worlds and shiftingnebulae of particles. Looking down from our vantage point we see the valley seems to plunge to unfathomable depths, looking like a peak inverted, burrowing into the ground, this would be a black hole. Whilst considerably smaller than say a galaxy its density and thus the gravity produced by it’s immense and ultimately all consuming.
Black holes are formed from the deaths of massive stars, supernovas that implode and are ultimately pushed back in on themselves to a core of massive density by gravity. These areas of space then begin to draw matter to them, noting can escape after a certain point, the event horizon, not even light can escape this barrier of space time. The core of the black hole cannot be seen because of this and that is where my debate starts. Does that mean that they are entities of space or non-space?
In a purely empirical sense I think one would probably conclude the latter since ultimately there is nothing to be observed there, it is a total absence of anything in a lot of ways. From a rational point of view I suspect you could come to much the same conclusion, they are destructive forces and by definition areas of unknown or nothingness. However this hasn’t prevented theories of them shooting the matter they consume across the galaxy or acting as portals of one kind or another, though I sense that that is more farfetched whimsy than solid science in many ways. So from those arguments we are looking pretty dead cert for non-space. Or are we?
The very fact of their existence is in a way a defence for them being space, as does their affect on space time. I also would suppose that in the same vein as the ideas of portals are improbable, its an unknown and therefore can’t be discounted from the argument. An area of space with the capacity to transmit something from one side of the universe to the other would have purpose making it a valid space.
However on that note, the fact that they are dead stars collapsed and engulfing would infer the statement “spaces without purpose where purpose once was”, unless of course you’re going to suggest that destruction is a purpose, which I guess would be a logical enough argument.
I’m actually quite torn on the whole thing, I don’t really know which way I’d fall on it, not without creating some more stable limiters for the concept of space/ non-space. I think that may just be my next task.