In astrophysics a black hole is a region of spacetime with peculiar characteristics. Nothing (be it matter or light or particles) that falls into it can escape. It swallows everything.
One of the first times the phenomenon attracted my attention was back in 1998 when Madeleine Albright, the former US Secretary of State, called Slovakia "the black hole of Europe".
These were harsh but true words spoken by one of the key politicians on the planet.
Slovakia, like Belarus, was...
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