In the vast emptiness of space, a black hole moved silently along its course.
An enormous, brilliant accretion disk revolved slowly around it, creating a strangely beautiful sight.
Farther out, a tiny fleet also circled it.
Unfortunately, whether on Earth or in space, beautiful things were almost always dangerous.
This was no exception.
Compared with the black holes in the central region of the Milky Way Galaxy, it was merely a small black hole.
Yet beneath its beautiful exterior lurked extreme danger.
Even setting aside the dangerous radiation it emitted, its immensely powerful gravity alone was enough.
Anything that ventured too close would be caught in its powerful gravitational pull. Even the Human Fleet, equipped with antimatter engines, would struggle to escape.
As for the consequences...
It would naturally mean a slow descent into the black hole's event horizon, the region from which even light could not escape, followed by a final plunge into its center-the singularity.
[Earth].
Standing beside the porthole, Lü Yongchang frowned slightly.
Once his initial awe had faded, he quickly began to think.
The sight of the black hole, visible to the naked eye, confirmed many of humanity's previous conjectures about black holes.
Yet one question still drifted through his mind.
Under normal circumstances, small black holes like this did not possess such enormous accretion disks.
In fact, most of the time, they had no accretion disk at all.
That was precisely why black holes were so difficult to observe.
On one hand, black holes absorbed starlight coming from afar. On the other, their immense gravity produced a gravitational lensing effect.
Viewed from a distance, even light from behind a black hole could "bend" around it under the influence of gravity and reach the observer.
Simply put, one could look through a black hole and