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* The pilot episode of [[Andromeda]] did quite well in averting this trope until the very end, when they escaped using [[Depleted Phlebotinum Shells|"Nova Bombs"]] to turn the black hole into a ''white'' hole.

* On ''[[Heroes]]'', a minor character named Stephen Canfield has the power to make Unrealistic Black Holes with his mind. {{spoiler|He eventually kills himself by creating one and being sucked inside it.}}

** Of course, considering {{spoiler|the planet was a cage for Satan, and proceeds to lose its orbit once his cell is opened, killing the Beast...}}

** If the planet was actually well inside the event horizon, and only protected by the gravity-cancelling tech, this would be closer to reality, including the narrow "funnel" of space allowing access to and from the planet.

* In ''[[Star Trek Armada]]'', black holes are just background objects, unless a ship's engines are disabled. Then they start to fall in and can be destroyed. No time dilation though.

* In ''[[Star Trek Starfleet Command]]'', black holes are [[Space Is an Ocean|blue whirlpools]] that suck in your starship if its engines aren't strong enough to escape.

* In ''Haegemonia'', black holes are giant shiny funnels in space that ''sound'' like a twister. Getting close to then is not recommended. They show up rarely though.

** And when they do, they continuously damage every ship in a large radius (probably due to the fact that real-life black holes are major radiation hazards). In the only campaign mission where one shows up, the player's second in command warns that "our larger ships are already having trouble keeping themselves away from it". What is unrealistic is that there is a pair of nebulae barely a single AU away from the black hole; how they managed to avoid being sucked in is a mystery. Another unrealism is the fact that the accretion disc is VERY fast when it should be very slow due to relativistic time dilation.

* The ''End of the World'' level of [[Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]] features black and purple spheres that suck everything towards them and kill you if you touch them. [[Nightmare Fuel|They also resemble the Eye of Sauron]]!

* One is created after the defeat of the final boss in ''[[Sonic Colors]]''. The final level is Sonic trying to escape it. {{spoiler|He fails around the 31 second mark.}}

* ''[[Starcraft]] 2'' has this as a protoss ability. It hovers above the ground, sucking in grid lines and [[Instant Runes|mathematical formulae]], and everything within range is stretched out and pulled in... until the black hole finally explodes and '''the units emerge unharmed'''. In fact, when one is used on your army, the correct strategy is to order all your other units into the black hole as well so the enemy [[Fridge Logic|cannot easily destroy them]] while your main force is gone.

* ''[[Megas XLR]]'' had Coop create a black hole once to defeat a villain, while still in [[Joisey|New Jersey]]. How does Coop get rid of it? By creating another black hole and the two somehow cancel each other out.

** This is ''slightly'' [[Hand Wave|HandWaved]] by the fact that it was called a "matter-antimatter rift", though the intent was there. A more straight example was in the second episode, when [[Bruce Campbell|Magnanimous]] threatened to throw Kiva and Jamie into a "Quantum Singularity", described as a "black hole, but portable and with a cooler name." It was ''roped off'' to prevent things from getting sucked in, and the only thing to be so unfortunate (Magnanimous himself) eventually escaped largely unharmed, save a scar he got fighting an [[Eldritch Abomination]] within it. Additionally, Magnanimous was only sucked in because he touched the Event Horizon, which [[Rule of Funny|made the whole space station blow up.]]

{{quote|'''Tick:''' Must ... defy ... laws of ... physics!

'''Arthur:''' Fight it, Tick! Fight that black hole! }}

== Real Life ==

* A lot of fears about the Large Hadron Collider are really fears that Unrealistic Black Holes reflect reality. [http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0810/0810.5515.pdf Two] [http://www.nickbostrom.com/papers/anthropicshadow.pdf papers] have been written which concern this issue.

** The final fate of the black hole is unclear, but most likely they'd disappear in a giant explosion, leaving perhaps a small remnant. Note, however, this process would take a ''[[Time Abyss|very]]'' long time, much larger than the current age of the Universe, at least for stellar-mass black holes and above.

* Given that modern physics have trouble to describe aspects of black holes like the existence of a singularity with infinite density and temperature in their centers, other alternatives like [[wikipedia:Fuzzball (string theory)|Fuzzballs]] have been suggested. In this case, a black hole would be a conglomerate of strings (no, not that ones) and everything fallen there would be disassembled into its component strings that would become part of the black hole.