"Academician, you're right. I really can't bear to tell the general the result. They stayed in that desolate place for a thousand years, only to be met with this ending."
"Let's get to work first. Let's give the general some hope, and let's give ourselves some hope too. Maybe it really will work."
"Okay, sure."
Academician Zeng already had data on space vortexes. Gao Zhengyang spent more than 50 years in space vortexes and measured all kinds of data about them. Of course, this data was later shared with Academician Zeng and his colleagues.
This spatial vortex resembles a giant cotton candy, with a rotational surface diameter of two light-years and a rotational axis length of one light-year. The vortex rotates faster at its center and slower at the outer edges, with different angular velocities at each point. However, the fastest linear velocity of the entire vortex is only one time the speed of light.
The vortex rotates around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way at a speed of 150 kilometers per second, which is about 70 kilometers per second slower than other celestial bodies. This is not surprising, as the overall spatial density of the vortex has increased, just like the nebula before. However, the spatial density of the vortex itself has increased only slightly, about 0.5 times greater than that of other parts of the Milky Way.
Because its speed has slowed down by 70 kilometers per second, many celestial bodies have entered the center of the vortex. Due to differences in mass, size, and density, the celestial bodies in the vortex will eventually collide with each other. This is very similar to a nebula, except that the collisions in a nebula are caused by the excessive density of matter, which leads to chaotic orbits of the celestial bodies.
No one knows when or why this spatial vortex was created. Moving it to the territory of the Xuan Star Civilization, which is 6,200 light-years away, is virtually impossible. The reason Academician Zeng is still calculating is simply to use data to discourage Hu Yu from making a decision.
Even so, the academicians were still seriously considering the matter. Even if there was only a one in ten thousand chance, it was worth their efforts. Academician Liu turned to the research on energy spheres because the critical size of an energy sphere is ten meters in diameter. If more pure energy is added, the energy sphere may collapse into a miniature black hole.
If there are many miniature black holes, the fleet can use countless miniature black holes to drag the spatial vortex forward, pulling it into the territory of the Xuan Star Civilization. Even if the Xuan Star Civilization fleet comes to block it, the fleet can easily enter the spatial vortex to take refuge.
The energy sphere exhibits no gravitational pull on the outside world, but there are forces between the Basic Energy within it; otherwise, the Basic Energy could not be gathered together. Therefore, the energy sphere cannot be made too large. Once it exceeds a critical value, the energy sphere may collapse and become a black hole. The powerful gravity of the black hole may be used to pry open this huge spatial vortex, and it may even become an offensive weapon in the future.
The experiment was conducted in the vast expanse of space, two light-years away from Earth Two. The two energy spheres slowly approached each other in the air, merging together. Energy was continuously released and turned into free energy, disappearing into the air, and the original stable state was slowly broken.
When the two energy spheres were halfway merged, they suddenly contracted and collapsed towards the center. Half a second later, both energy spheres disappeared without a trace. The expected miniature black hole did not appear, and space returned to its original state in a very short time.
The experiment was conducted again, and this time everyone could finally see clearly that the Basic Energy did not leak out after the energy spheres merged. At the center of the fusion, an infinitely small point appeared, through which the Basic Energy disappeared without a trace.
This point doesn't resemble a black hole, but the exact appearance of a black hole is still undetermined. Hu Yu had previously sent his fleet to investigate black holes several times, but black holes are simply too powerful. Even Small Star Sector Civilization can't handle ordinary space vortices, let alone Hu Yu's fleet dealing with black holes. Therefore, the fleet could only collect a few scattered pieces of information at a distance of tens of light-years from the black hole.
Since Academician Liu proposed the theory of Basic Space and Basic Energy, the academicians have hypothesized that the outer periphery of a black hole is composed of Basic Matter particles, the vicinity of the center is composed of Basic Energy, and the very center is composed of Basic Space, which connects to the fourth dimension.
The third experiment was conducted. This time, Academician Liu tried releasing a cloud of smoke next to the energy sphere. If the energy sphere fusion had indeed produced a miniature black hole, the smoke would have been absorbed. However, after the experiment, the smoke remained unchanged, and its quantity did not decrease in the slightest.
The only explanation is that the energy accumulated beyond a critical point, opening a channel between the three-dimensional universe and the fourth dimension, much like a four-dimensional communication network that uses energy to create a connection to the fourth dimension. If this is the case, it suggests that this phenomenon is somewhat similar to the hypothetical black hole.
However, the reason why black holes can exist stably and continuously, and why the Basic Energy inside them does not enter the fourth dimension in large quantities, is a mystery that has puzzled many people, and some even doubt whether the previous concept of black holes was correct.
The suction force generated by the fusion of energy spheres does not act on matter, but only on energy. Academician Liu speculated that it is not that the suction force does not act on matter, but that this suction force is still very weak and insufficient to affect matter. Moreover, this suction force is not gravity, but the Basic Space Force Basic Space Force is very weak, when there are many Basic Space, they will produce powerful macroscopic manifestations. For example, warp drive uses the spatial force of high-density space to drive the spaceship.
Academician Liu continued to attempt to fuse more energy spheres, but no matter what, the suction force could not reach the level of affecting matter. After all, an energy sphere only contained 100 million tons of matter, which is vastly different from the mass of a black hole. The impact on space was even weaker; apart from the fusion center connecting to the fourth dimension, it did not have a strong impact on the surrounding space.
This connection to the fourth dimension was already achieved in the era of four-dimensional networks. Unless the passageway is expanded to allow warships to pass through, it would only be meaningful. Otherwise, such a passageway, smaller than a millimeter, cannot even pass through reconnaissance equipment, let alone facilitate higher-dimensional travel.
The experiment was conducted over a hundred times, and half of the energy sphere was consumed, but a stable black hole state still had not appeared. Academician Liu had no choice but to stop the experiment, as continuing it would affect the combat effectiveness of Earth Two and the fleet.
Seeing the failure of Academician Liu's artificial black hole project, everyone turned their attention to massive stars in the universe. Massive stars may produce black holes at the end of their lives, but the black holes created by accelerating the nuclear reaction rate inside the star and causing it to collapse are too terrifying. The fleet cannot move them away. Even if they can exert gravity on the space vortex and drag it away, the fleet has no way to control the direction of the vortex.