>> The difference between a black hole and a star is that if you fall onto a star, you’re burned to ashes when you get too close. Well, actually, the differenc

>> The difference between a black hole and a star is that if you fall onto a star, you’re burned to ashes when you get too close. Well, actually, the difference is that all non-black-hole masses have spacial extent, so if you get 'too close' you are now inside the object and the gravitational attraction decreases if you continue to move closer to the center of the object, since you are now inside the 'newton shell' of some of the mass. There is no place you can be relative to any non black hole where you can find a gravitational field as strong as what you would find near the event horizon of every black hole (which is always equal to any other black hole, and is basically by definition the strongest gravitational field that can be found anywhere). Black holes do have stronger gravity than non black holes.