"What is this?"
Fu Qing stepped out of the cabin as well, staring wide-eyed at the scene ahead. Having roamed the universe for hundreds of millions of years, he had never seen a black hole resembling a golden pupil.
"This means this black hole has existed far longer than we imagined."
Liu Di pondered as Magic Child's analysis data filled his eyes. "Though it isn't particularly large, it is ancient. There are no stellar fragments in its outer orbital region—no sea of fire or hell. That means those stars have been completely digested by it, not even scraps remaining."
"Huh?"
Fu Qing froze. "Then why is it glowing, like an open eye?"
Purple light flickered in Liu Di's right eye. "Black holes do not merely absorb light; they also distort it. Outside its event horizon, it isn't that most light is not absorbed—it is distorted."
"The outline of the eye we see."
"It is a layer of photons, slowly moving along the black hole's surface and forming a spherical shell of light."
Liu Di was somewhat puzzled. "These photons should have appeared only recently. Otherwise, they would have been swallowed long ago. But... where did they come from?"
Fu Qing relaxed slightly. "So according to you, it's just a scientific phenomenon. I thought there was some powerful life-form ahead, or that the black hole itself was alive. Heh."
Just then.
The enormous golden eye suddenly rippled. In a daze, it seemed as though the eye had blinked!
Then the light covering its entire body became even more ethereal and indistinct, its spread expanding by several degrees like a thin veil.
"What is going on?!"
"It blinked?!"
Fu Qing shuddered in horror.
Liu Di shook his head slightly. "The wave-particle duality of light. Because the two of us observers exist, it