In the blink of an eye, humanity spent several more decades racing back and forth across the stars.
Since mastering Third Generation Warp Speed technology, humanity had reached the level of a Peak Level 4 Civilization. Although they had not fought any earth-shaking wars, humanity had come to recognize the power of the technology they possessed. By now, it seemed they had pushed their existing technology to its limits.
Well, the limits humanity believed it could reach. People also knew that some technologies they currently considered impossible to advance further might not represent the limits of every Level 4 Civilization. After all, certain unusual lifeforms could always develop unimaginable technologies through unconventional ideas.
Of course, humanity had also tried involving the top scientists from several Star Alliance civilizations in research projects across various technological fields, hoping to discover directions humanity itself could not see. However, the results had been meager.
Under these circumstances, humanity finally decided after several meetings to search for a black hole.
Since a Natural Wormhole remained nowhere in sight, they would take the risk of finding a black hole and studying it to see whether they could locate the theoretical Negative Energy Field, thereby completing the puzzle of the Theory of Everything.
As extreme celestial bodies, black holes were certainly much easier to find than Natural Wormholes. Over the years, humanity's Sky Survey Telescope Array had discovered quite a few black holes, so once they decided to explore one, they could simply choose one from the star charts.
And that was exactly what humanity did. The black hole they selected had a mass of roughly ten solar masses and lay more than eighteen hundred light-years from humanity's current location. Its predecessor should have been a star of around fifty solar masses, whose core collapsed after a