What if a black hole isn't a hole?

So I had this idea earlier today after watching a couple of videos on Quantum Physics and Quantum Mechanics yesterday. The idea that there could be something with so much gravity as hypothesized in a black hole seems a bit confusing to me since nothing would be able to escape its gravity. What if, however a black hole isn’t really a hole at all? What else could it be?

Then I started thinking about liquid hydrogen. We know from videos taken inside of orbiting space craft that liquid matter returns to a spherical state in space. For instance water in a vacuum will create little spheres. When light hits a sphere of water or any other clear liquid the light is refracted in a different way than a solid. When we look at a black hole, couldn’t we really be looking at the refracted dark space on the other side of a sphere of liquid hydrogen or helium, or even water?

Image from NASA

This would explain the gas based stars that appear to be emanating from the black holes. It would also explain why there appears to be a lot of gravity at the center of the black hole. An object large enough to be visible from this far away in space would definitely generate a lot of gravity. If the sphere isn’t so far away though, it wouldn’t have stars revolving around it at all.

It seems a bit odd to me though that with all of the spheres, from small sub atomic particles  all the way up to gas giant stars, that within the vacuum of the universe we would naturally have an object that isn’t a sphere at all. Just a thought.

Image from Black Holes on Wikipedia.org