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Not really. A black hole can swallow matter, but space is defined as the absence of matter. In that case, it can attract pretty much everything that occupies space.

It's also important to note that Black holes aren't the inescapable vacuum cleaners pop culture makes them out to be. Sure, there are some big ones out their, but, outside of their event horizon, they behave like anything as massive as they are. For instance, one with a planetary mass would only have an event horizon (black sphere of inescapable influence) the size of a Golf ball. If a moon were as far away from that and orbiting at the same speed as our moon, it wouldn't be pulled in critically, but keep its pattern the same as it would if it were orbiting any other planet. Sure, it would swallow anything that happened to veer into its gravity field the wrong way, but it won't consume ALL of space.

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