It seems that now it doesn't get passed the black screen at all. It just crashes after loading for ages. I even tried to open it on airplane mode and it still crashed. I really hope this gets fixed soon because this has only been getting worse for a very long time.
When trying to load it takes over 20 minutes and then once it us about to be done loading in the Mojang Studios screen it freezes then crashes the game. This just started happening around the new update.
And....no stars, sun, or clouds. Its really broken. Pls Mojang....please!
And it happens in solo, the new screen of v and p is always in cycle with aquatic and the cats and pandas like the game is confused!
Its bad, I am hosting a realm and I get disconnected every 2 minutes!
The problem may have been storage related as suggested by another commenter. When I couldn't open the game at all I decided to take the last resort measure of deleting all save data. It fixed the problem for me but at the cost of all of my worlds. I still do not recommend doing it because I do not know if it would work for others. I hope this information may be of use to somebody.