Questions tagged [black-hole]
For questions concerning black holes as they appear in science fiction works.
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Animated short film in which a black hole suddenly appears on a playground
I watched this animated short film in the late 80s or early 90s, likely on German TV. Typical Western 2D animation style of the time. I remember the following scenes:
A kid plays with a ball on a ...
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Short nerdy sci-fi story where scientists discover that the Earth is falling into a black hole
I remember finding a PDF of this on the internet a few years ago, so it may not be a published work. It is about a scientist who observes unnatural behavior in the sky, and after some analysis ...
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Old Movie About a space ship flying into the black hole featuring villain with robotic hand [duplicate]
I am looking for a movie I saw on television when I was a young kid in the early 1990s. I saw it dubbed into Czech, but I am fairly certain it was produced in the United States. Judging by the visuals,...
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Webcomic with a protagonist who can walk through walls
I have been trying to recall an English webcomic where the protagonist had the power of walking through walls.
In one story, there was a sentient miniature black hole devouring everything. The ...
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In Dragon's Egg, the effect on time due to extremely high gravity is inconsistent
This has been messing with my head for a while.
The Cheela in/on Dragon's Egg book/planet, had their time move much faster, compared to the humans out in the space. This was explained as due to the ...
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Looking for a manga about a manufactured black hole, planet with weird tidal forces, etc
I read this collection of manga shorts in an English B&W reprint in the '90s or early 2000s. I think they were all by the same creator, as opposed to an anthology. I found it at a public library ...
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Trying to remember a Sci-fi movie or TV series where a human space fighter pilot chases an alien space fighter craft to the edge of a black hole
Trying to remember a movie or TV series.
One scene I remember. The space fighter pilot is part of a squadron that has had a group dogfight with a bunch of nasty alien craft. One alien craft escapes so ...
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Sci-fi book with a generational spaceship traveling the interstellar void
Spaceship is gigantic. Most of the passengers don’t even realize that it���s a spaceship and the Author describes the world in great - captivating - detail. The ship has forests, lakes and generally ...
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50's/60's (?) sci fi movie: exploration spaceship escapes a star's supernova, ends up in another universe after being sucked in a black hole
In the early 1970’s I watched a movie on TV as a little kid, about an exploration spaceship that found a red super giant star that was about to go supernova.
They tried to escape and got sucked into ...
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Suspected alien life in a black hole
This was in a short story I read ten to twenty years ago.
A scientific research starship is investigating a black hole. One of the researchers maintains that he is receiving faint intelligent signals ...
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Short story I read in a collection by several authors, ship rides to edge of the universe and back, experiences big bang
Years ago I had a collection of short stories, maybe 20 stories by different authors.
One of the stories still stands out to me. A ship left Earth looking for another planet to colonize. They ended ...
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How did Cooper and Brand survive Gargantua's gravity?
Cooper's spaceship travels around (and very close to) the event horizon of Gargantua.
Romilly explains to Cooper...
Romilly: Gargantua's an older, spinning black hole. It has what we call a ...
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short story about astronauts who enter a black hole and witness the death of the universe [duplicate]
I was listening to a podcast called Exploration, which is hosted by Professor Michio Kaku. He mentioned a short story about astronauts who fall into a black hole and live long enough to witness the ...
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The risk of the TARDIS safeguard
In the Christmas special "Voyage of the Damned" (Tenth Doctor), The Doctor explains the TARDIS is programmed to lock onto the nearest centre of gravity when it's adrift (in this case, Earth).
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Person communicates with alien through a small piece of matter
I really don't remember all the details of this book, but a scientist makes a crystal of some sort and finds out he can use it to communicate with an alien, eventually, the alien gets the scientist to ...
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