>>12920915>Have you heard about the idea that as you enter a black hole, more paths start to converge towards the black hole than away from it, and past the event horizon all paths point towards the singularity?General relativity equates gravity to the curvature of the universe. It's a bit difficult to transfer the idea in a brief post, but matter causes the universe not to be flat. A black hole would cause an immense amount of curvature, leading to the black hole being inside a deep well. If you want to look deeper into the specifics, try understanding light cones and timelike curves.
>How does this mesh with gravity, which apparently is a wave moving at the speed of light, propagating out of the black hole, away from the singularity?You are confusing gravity with gravitational waves. The universe is dynamic, so if matter can affect the curvature of the universe, so can changing matter. If a star explodes the curvature resulting from the flung out pieces of the star causes waves of such curvature, this is what's called a gravitational wave.
>How can a wave travel away from a point when all paths are pointing towards that point?The wave is not an object travelling through the universe, the wave is an effect on the "fabric" of the universe.
