My point isnāt that a black hole is unique or anything else of the sort. Heavy objects try to suck in lighter objects around them. The reason I was saying I would only sometimes describe it as being āsucked inā was because that suggests being significantly pulled towards the object, whereas if it is a fairly stable orbit or the objectās trajectory being slightly bent, I wouldnāt describe it as such (black hole or otherwise). Even with a gas giant, It wouldnāt feel wrong to say it sucks in nearby debris.
Ok, then itās not the condition of ābeing a black holeā what makes it āsuck inā, but its mass, which can be varied (according to Stephen Hawking, the theoretical minimum mass to form a black hole would be 0.01 mg)
Saying that a black hole āsucks inā in that sense is as valid as saying that any object with mass (like a tenis ball) āsucks inā. But I donāt think thatās what the article was referring to as a āmythā, the myth the article targets is the suck power being a particular characteristic of black holes.