Black holes are regions of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. They form when large stars collapse at the end of their life cycles, compressing their mass into a tiny space. There are several types of black holes including stellar black holes formed by collapsed stars and supermassive black holes found at the center of galaxies containing billions of solar masses. If matter enters a black hole's event horizon, it becomes "spaghettified" as tidal forces stretch and compress it due to the extreme warping of spacetime.