I don’t know how to code. Not even a little.
But I wanted to make a black hole.
Not just one that looks beautiful.
I wanted one you could actually give something to.
So I made “Nothing Comes Back”
(https://blackhole.echoscarrie.com/).
You type a few words and press “Drop”.
The words begin to circle the black hole. They slow down, turn red, blur, and disappear.
They never come back.
At first, it sounds like a place for things you want to get rid of.
A bad memory.
Someone you miss.
Something you regret.
But that is only part of it.
You can also write the sentence you never said.
A wish you want to come true.
Something you want to finish.
Something you are afraid to admit, even to yourself.
Sometimes you are not trying to delete the words.
You just need to say them once.
The website does not reply. It does not give advice. It does not ask you to explain yourself.
It also does not save what you write.
Your words stay inside your browser, disappear with the animation, and are never sent to me.
The only thing the site remembers is that someone dropped something.
That is why there is a shared number at the bottom:
1,205 thoughts swallowed. None returned.
You can see that other people have stood here too.
But nobody knows what they gave the black hole.
I like that.
It feels private without feeling completely lonely.
The black hole itself moves in real time. You can drag around it, move closer, and watch light bend around it. AI helped me build it, but the hardest part was not making the black hole look real.
The hardest part was deciding what it should do with people’s words.
In the end, the answer was simple:
Nothing.
It listens for a moment.
Then it lets them go.
Try it here:
https://blackhole.echoscarrie.com/
What would you give to a black hole that never tells anyone?
Top comments (3)
I'm on the opposite side of the philosophical spectrum.
I'm directly opposed to the notion of letting things go, forgetting things.
This is how we ended up here, in 2026, with a boiling planet, social meltdown, and fakelery running so deep, that now we cannot even differentiate between lies and reality.
We had an era of warriors, then priests, then nobles, then buerocrats, then capitalists, then bankers.
This era is of the telemarketers.
I wonder what the next era will be, if there'll be any.
I think we may be talking about two different kinds of letting go. I agree that collective memory matters. This project isn’t about erasing history or responsibility—it’s a private place to say something without turning it into content or a permanent record. Some things must be remembered. Some things just need to be said once.
Hi Blackhole.
It seems to me that you have a Hawking radiation.
You did not silently consume my comment here.
Yeah, this is why I like public spaces.
Where people can talk openly, instead of being too preoccupied with their little self.
For example: In this project you used stolen goods.
You are using a technology which was built by stealing - without even saying a thanks - the works of too many people to count.
Codes, books, scripts, conversations intended as private, you name it.
Stolen, pricetagged, sold, without any warranty.
Capitalism ruined the planet, now it even takes a dump on the sanctity of knowledge itself.
You probably don't want to talk about this real world issue, or the fact that my profession drifted so far from credibility that I can no longer call it a profession.
So I'll leave you be, generating an insta-worthy dev/null instead.