Burning Questions

Here is a conversation I recently had with noted physicist Casey "Morrison" Davis of UC Davis, known to undergrads of all departments as "the druid" and to the livejournasphere as barnabas_truman; rumored to be a wizard whose bushy brown beard is considered an omen of good fortune, whose very presence is believed to cause bystanders to understand math and physics better; whose pennywhistle music on the quad can tame wild beasts and even Calpirgers. for the sake of imagining this conversation, instead of picturing us at our computers talking on facebook, as actually happened, why don't you go ahead and picture us wearing bowler hats sitting in a victorian parlor. I do in fact currently have a handlebar mustache, which will fit in with this setting nicely.

Me: Casey dear chap, can light itself orbit a black hole?

( The answers to all your burning questions! )

And here is a picture that is only related inasmuch as it's of the sun, since I don't have any pictures of any black holes at the moment. (: