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What is a black hole?

What is a black hole? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A gravitationally domineering celestial body with an event horizon from which even light cannot escape; the most dense material in the universe, condensed into a singularity, usually formed by a collapsing massive star.
  2. (figuratively) A void into which things disappear and/or from which nothing emerges.
    1. A sphere of influence into which or from which communication or similar activity is precluded.
    2. An entity which consumes time or resources without demonstrable utility.
  3. A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom.
  4. (Internet) Alternative spelling of blackhole
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But before this material is permanently captured, it gathers into a swirling accretion disk that surrounds the black hole and radiates intensely.
You wouldn't be able to tell by looking whether the black hole was originally formed by matter, antimatter or green cheese.
Sound does travel in space, evidenced by the B flat note emanating from a black hole discovered by scientists in the last couple weeks.
These stars are whipping around the black hole in much the same way as planets in our Solar System are revolving around the Sun.
All of that is trivial, compared to the yawning black hole of unfunded pension liabilities.
Gas and dust funnel towards a black hole in an accretion disk, swirling around and into the void like water down a drain.

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