Does the Holy Qur’an speak about modern discoveries like black holes?

Yes, in its own language. The Holy Qur’an describes the beginning of the universe as a tightly closed state that was opened, and its end as a rolling up, and both fit remarkably well with what is known about black holes today.

The Holy Qur’an is not a physics textbook. Yet in some places it speaks about creation in a way that makes one marvel at how well its words fit modern discoveries. One example is what science calls a black hole.

The first verse above says that the heavens and the earth were a closed-up mass that was then opened out. The Arabic word for this mass is ratq. Older commentaries understood it as a kind of shapeless cloud, and that is also correct. But above all the word describes something so tightly sealed that nothing can escape from it. The opposite word, fatq, means to break something open suddenly, and also to separate things so that they become distinct.

This is exactly how a black hole is described. Nothing escapes it, neither light nor radiation. From outside, no property of it can be observed. The entire universe could be drawn together into such a state. Something with no properties at all is very close to non-existence. From such a state God opened out the world and gave it shape.

The second verse above looks in the other direction. God will roll up the heavens like a scroll, and as He began the first creation, so He will repeat it. This resembles the images science uses to describe how matter is drawn into a black hole. Both the end and the new beginning lie in God's hand.

In this way the Holy Qur’an sums up the beginning and the end of creation in a few words. Whoever reads it attentively finds no contradiction with nature in it, but rather hints that often only fully open up with new knowledge.