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Black holes follow from three principles:
1. The speed of light is limited
2. The force of gravity is not
3. Light is subject to the force of gravity
Based on this understanding, scientists first speculated about "dark stars" so massive that their light could not escape them as early as the late 1700s. The modern conceptualization of the black hole came about with the development of general relativity and quantum mechanics in the early 1900s.
If any of these principles did not hold, the universe and life as we know it would not exist, as with all of the laws of physics.