Real, and still around.
Well, it's entirely irrelevant, but I'll play along for now. Here's my thoughts: just because it can be faked, doesn't mean it has been.
Now, are you saying that you are 100% sure that human bones are made of sandstone?
Correct... from inside the Black Hole. Outside, their gravitational effects on other objects behave just like those of other objects.
If you replaced Sun with a Black Hole of equivalent mass (that is, a Black Hole that's exactly 1 Solar Mass), the orbits of all the planets would be completely...
Religious behavior seems to be pretty central to being human, so it won't "go away" so long as we're homo sapiens sapiens. It's just part of who we are as a species.
Apologies. I use "dude" gender neutrally, but I'll try to remember that.
And I have seen it, and heard horror stories. It doesn't take long to find them.