Randolph Itch, 2 a.m. by Tom Toles for March 11, 2021

And now we know why.

If you strike a black hole with a cue stick, aren’t you just shoving your stick into the void?

Looks like this is after Jupiter’s Great Tack, assuming the ringed planet is Saturn. And we are lucky, data from Cassini points to those rings diminishing to nothing in about 300,000,000 years.

“Why would I want to play dice with the cosmos when I could be doing this?”