Not a physicist but I’m taking chem so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but wouldn’t a black hole just be a star that’s so dense it prevents its own light from escaping? Like it came from a star and the only reason a star provides light is because it’s hot enough (produces enough energy) to radiate electromagnetic waves of a given frequency. If it was so dense it prevented its own waves from escaping that doesn’t change the fact that it’s still essentially a star right? So like the actual composition doesn’t change with the exception that now the energy is trapped by its own gravity so we can’t detect it other than its effect of the surroundings.

Alternatively if that’s wrong (which it probably is) is the black hole considered a singularity because it’s gravity is so intense (and therefore distorts the amount of time to travel a given distance, effectively rendering it a bigger space than we would see it as) it takes light an infinite amount of time to travel through the space so we consider it technically infinite gravity from a point (singularity) because the area around it takes an infinite amount of time to travel through at light’s vacuum constant so we never see it?

I know nothing please educate.