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"inhospitably cold" doesn't work for the joke, because it is not common between black holes or January. For one, January isn't cold for everyone on Earth. It's in the middle of summer for the entire Southern hemisphere, for example. And two, black holes, specifically the accretion disk surrounding them, are extremely hot due friction and relativistic speeds.
Black holes are freezing cold on the inside, but incredibly hot just outside.
The internal temperature of a black hole with the mass of our Sun is around
one-millionth of a degree above absolute zero.
This is a comic. It is not a peer-reviewed science article. The joke works - you're just over-analyzing it and doing a common "well, actually" to try to tear it down and show everyone that you have some nugget of knowledge. There's nothing wrong with the joke - it's a webcomic, it doesn't have to be 100% factually true in every known universal case...if comics/humor had to do that then they wouldn't be funny.
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