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{{quote|'''[[The Smart Guy|Lieutenant Colonel (Dr.) Samantha Carter]]''': "The singularity is about to explode"?<br />
'''Martin Lloyd''': Yes.<br />
'''Carter''': Everything about that statement is wrong.|[[Stargate SG
Black holes. They're the most terrifying things in the known universe. They're the real [[Eldritch Abomination]]. They're huge masses of... well, ''nothing'' (but they do have a lot of [[Shaped Like Itself|mass]]); and nothing, not even light, can travel fast enough to escape them. Unfortunate items which do fall in are spaghettified (the official scientific term), stretched thin by [[wikipedia:Tidal force|tidal forces]], the black hole ripping atom from atom, then ripping up the atoms. But that's only if you get too close. From a far enough, stable orbit, being near a black hole would just be the same as orbiting a massive star.
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* Blackbeard's Devil Fruit abilities in [[One Piece]] is a perfect example.
* In [[Diebuster]] {{spoiler|a giant space monster managed to absorb the black hole he was trapped in and turn it into a weapon. When the heroes destroyed him, they accidentally ''split the black hole in half'', almost causing a new Big Bang. They managed to save the day, in a way that even one of characters admitted is beyond human's understanding.}}
** Hilariously enough, the original series, ''[[
* ''[[Heroic Age]]'': Black holes do ''not'' look like giant tornadoes [[Recycled in Space|in space]]! And you certainly cannot ''punch'' them out of existence, no matter how powerful you are. [[Rule of Cool|The effects were nonetheless very awesome.]]
* Gildartz from [[Fairy Tail]] actually ''crushed'' a black hole out of existence.
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* Towards the end of ''[[Shakara]]'', the title character rigs the Museum of War to trap the [[Big Bad]]'s soldiers that pursue him. The weapons he use are black hole bombs, each of which creates a black hole about the size of a basketball when it detonates, and immediately sucks up his pursuers.
* There's a comic in [[Marvel Star Wars]] which involves the ''Millennium Falcon'', piloted by Luke, playing chicken with a Star Destroyer and a black hole and managing, through the Force, to take subtle maneuvers at the very edge of their personal event horizon. The Star Destroyer tries to follow the maneuver and doesn't manage.
* Xorn from the [[X
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* The film ''[[Godzilla]] VS Megaguirus'' features the [[Kill Sat|Dimension Tide]], an orbital satellite that fires a small black hole at the earth in order to send Godzilla into another dimension. {{spoiler|[[Plot Armor|It doesn't work.]]}}
** Also somehow the ''three'' black holes they create just kinda disappear from existence without much fuss or well ''swallowing the entire planet''. They also manage to create a wormhole that opens just in time to bring back an ancient bug for Godzilla to fight and then close up without any further mention.
* The 2009 ''[[Star Trek (
** This black hole is also 2D, or very flat, and surrounded by scary lightning. It is also created from a very tiny amount of mass.
** Worse still, the planet {{spoiler|Vulcan}} is consumed by a black hole... in minutes, not the near hour it would take at a minimum; completely, rather than forming an accretion disc; and without flooding the vicinity with enough X rays to vaporize every starship around, shields or no shields.
** But let's not forget that this black hole was made with [[Applied Phlebotinum|Red Matter]], made by Vulcans for the purpose of creating a black hole. Forget about Accretion Disks, Event Horizons and General Relativity...things work differently when you have an intelligent alien race manufacturing black holes for their own purposes.
* Disney's ''[[The Black Hole]]'' is [[Exactly What It Says
** It's actually implied that {{spoiler|they all died. The heroes ended up in Heaven, the baddies in Hell. And apparently the robots were sentient enough to have a soul.}}
** {{spoiler|Granted that the robots in charge of the technical duties were not [[Our Zombies Are Different|robots]]...}}
* Disney's ''[[Treasure Planet]]'' deals momentarily with a super nova going black hole. It's part of how they {{spoiler|kill off Mr. Arrow (sadly, not to return, like Sam the Eagle did).}} The RLS Legacy drifts partially into the emerging black hole, gets hit by the 'biggest magilla of them all', and rides the solar energy out of the black hole safely.
** And then we see an [[Scenery Porn|awesome shot]] of the accretion disk in the following scene. Which is... blue?
* In ''[[
* ''[[The Giant Spider Invasion]]'' has the eponymous beasties arrive through a black hole that landed in a farmer's field. Without anything being sucked into it, natch. At the climax of the movie the black hole is saturated with neutrons and apparently neutralized, which causes all the spiders to burst into flames and ooze ice cream. Yes, it's a very bad movie.
* ''[[Event Horizon]]''. The titular spacecraft featured both "normal-space" engines and the "[[Fan Nickname|Hell-Drive]]". The former was a (horrendously misnamed) "Ion Drive". The latter used an ''artificial black hole" to do a gravity-based spacewarp that apparently takes you straight through the [[Warhammer
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* In the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] ''[[New Jedi Order]]'' series, the Yuuzhan Vong ships actually created tiny black holes as shields (they exist just long enough to absorb incoming ordnance, then collapse). Of course even assuming you could do that, when you collapsed the singularity the destroyed ordnance would burst out as pure energy (which would be an enormously bigger explosion than whatever the weapon could have caused normally). The same [[Living Weapon|creature/components]] that do this also propel the ships.
** Also from the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] is the Maw, a massive cluster of black holes. Theories abound that it was constructed, like a number of other unlikely celestial objects in the galaxy, to have been built by [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]].
** ''[[Luke Skywalker and
* [[Fred Saberhagen]]'s ''[[Berserker (Literature)|Berserker]]'' short stories. In "Masque of the Red Shift" Johann Karlsen takes a lifeboat into a black hole to lure a berserker ship to its doom. In "The Temple of Mars" we learn that Karlsen went into orbit around the black hole within the event horizon, and in "The Face of the Deep" he's rescued from the black hole.
* Joe Haldeman's novel ''[[The Forever War]]''. Starships are able to travel hundreds of light years at a time by diving into collapsars (black holes).
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* [[Alan Dean Foster]]'s ''[[Humanx Commonwealth]]'' series generally treats black holes seriously, but there's a rather odd bit of pseudoscience in ''The End of the Matter'', where a galaxy-sized "collapsar" (term likely borrowed from Haldeman) is neutralized by juxtaposing it with a similarly massive "expandar", or white hole, composed entirely of antimatter. Their respective gravitational fields ''suck material out'' of each other and mutually annihilate it. How this works is anyone's guess.
* The long-out-of-print novel ''Earth Ship and Star Song'' posits an FTL drive which involves creating a black hole around your ship to fling you into hyperspace (or whatever), then creating ''another'' black hole while you're inside the first one. The second black hole supposedly "eats" the first one and pops you back out into normal space. Um... yeah.
* One of the [[Red Dwarf (
** Though the process of spaghettification was a tad off. According to the models that physicists use, objects that fall into a black hole are stretched to the point where they become an immensely long strand of matter one atom thick leading down to the singularity. Somehow Grant and Naylor managed to make spaghettification [[Nightmare Fuel|much more terrifying]] by instead having people aboard the ship turn into multiple strands of spaghetti that plopped on the floor and started mixing with each other.
*** [[Rule of Funny]]. It wasn't "[[Did Not Do the Research]]", it was "Did the research, then threw it out the window because the alternative was more entertaining".
* In ''[[The Magicians]]'', Josh can produce what he identifies as a black hole. Cartoonily, his target gazes stupidly at the hole for a second before getting sucked in. Of course, in the book's world, no wizard really understands how magic works...
* Averted in ''The Planck Dive'', by [[Greg Egan]], which describes what it would be like to fall into a black hole (assuming you could survive).
* ''[[
** It's never made exactly clear ''how'' the Ellimist reacted in that way, and it is strongly insinuated to have something to do with the fact that [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens|he was practically a god already]]. If memory serves, Crayak was there when the Ellimist "died;" he later figured out what happened (again, we don't actually see it) and duplicates it. As the Ellimist put it "The chances of it happening once were astronomical. The chances of it happening twice were inevitable."
*** It should also be observed that only ''part'' of the Ellimist, who as mentioned above was [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens|already advanced to quasi-literal godhood]], that was sucked into the black hole. It was the experience of being crushed into atoms and still sentient that helped him achieve the jump to the space-time fabric realm.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' has the eponymous vessel, in its second episode enter a hole's event horizon, get trapped there, and then use a photon torpedo to "rip" a hole in said horizon in order to escape. For those who don't know, the event horizon is not a physical barrier, it's just a mathematical distance from the center of the black hole, and thus rather impossible to rip a hole in.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' both uses and partially averts this trope on a couple of occasions. In one episode, the Stargate connects to a planet falling into a black hole; the fact that time slows down near a black hole is used both as a plot point and for dramatic effect (our heroes must watch an unfortunate SG team on the doomed planet try to reach the gate - they keep running, but can never reach safety as time slows to a crawl for them, and the 38 minutes the gate can stay open passes in under a second.). In another episode, the evil Replicators use a black hole's distortion of time and some [[Applied Phlebotinum]] to escape from its accretion disk (at least it was made clear they weren't trapped in the black hole ''itself''!) Of course, as with everything in Stargate, moderately plausible science is liberally mixed with [[Rule of Cool]], and black holes get to interact with Stargates (and ''[[Deus Ex Nukina|nuclear weapons]]'') in lots of interesting ways.
** In another episode, the team combines a Stargate, Explodium, Technobabble, and a black hole to dial the Supergate and keep the Ori out of the Milky Way. Points for McKay telling Mitchell that it's not the black hole he's looking at, it's the accretion disk. Not that Mitchell cares.
{{quote| Mitchell: Which is ''cool''.}}
* [[
** You actually cannot enter a white hole, just like you cannot leave a black hole.
** As of this writing, physics would allow such a "White Hole" to continue to exist if it were to come into existence. That phrasing is very specific: it would be impossible for one to form in the first place.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Magic:
== Video Games ==
* According to the plans shown in the Long-Fall Boot video, the dual portal device from ''[[Portal (
* In [[Bullet Hell|Go Beryllium]], you have to dodge '''Hawking radiation''' until the thing evaporates. It's the size of an atom, but then again, [[Exactly What It Says
* ''[[Mega Man (
** As does [[Ratchet and Clank|Ratchet]] in [[Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal]], and ''his'' black holes can suck each other up, making even ''bigger'' ones! But, of course, there's a limit. For bonus points, the Rift Inducer 5000 from [[Ratchet and Clank Future A Crack In Time]] contains an [[Eldritch Abomination]] with [[Combat Tentacles]] named [[Fluffy the Terrible|"Fred"]], who [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|"enjoys moonlight strolls along the beach, reading and mauling on suspecting enemies with brutal efficiency."]] When upcraded into the Rift Ripper 5000, the black hole ''explodes'' due to the manufacturers "removing the horetzion stabilizer". Keep in mind that [[Rule of Cool]] and [[Rule of Fun]] are in full effect here.
*** Actually, Black holes aren't objects of infinite gravity, otherwise we'd already be all dead, they have as much mass and therefore gravity as the object that was collapsed into singularity. SO, as long as Mega Man and Ratchet were using ammo will a small enough mass/density, the earth would just be fine. The unrealistic part is how long the black holes last, a black hole made from something as small, by astronomical scales, as the Statue of Liberty, would only last a fraction of nanosecond.
*** The fact that you're immune to your own black holes should tell you [[Rule of Fun|how much you are supposed to care in the first place]].
** Saturn in the Game Boy ''5'' provides the Black Hole weapon. It forms above Mega Man's head, sucks in weak enemies, and then spits out debris.
** ''[[
** The Gravity Well weapon is obtained in ''X3'' from Gravity Beetle. The normal shot makes a localized high-gravity area to crush enemies, while the charged version launches a more powerful version off the top of the screen and is strong enough to drag enemies away.
* ''[[
** And let's not forget the black holes that function as bottomless pits for each level. There are pretty much only two realistic things to them: they suck and they red-shift.
** In the [[Super Mario Galaxy 2
** Before that, in Bowser Jr's third fortress [[Fridge Logic|he managed to build a structure with one in the center]].
* While we're on the subject, [[Super Paper Mario
** Also, {{spoiler|there's a castle in it.}}
* The blackholes in [[Spore]]. They're covered in lightning, you can fly right up to them and, with the right upgrade, ''through'' them and out another black hole. Another wormhole confusion example.
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** That's actually fairly realistic, if you're willing to fudge the masses and timescales by several orders of magnitude. Although it really should evaporate in a very loud BANG, to be strictly accurate.
** And in the sequel, spawning a black hole causes it to suck up any nearby objects for a few seconds. When the few seconds are up, it expands and consumes the entire stage, protagonist included. And it cannot be removed once spawned.
* [[Mario and Luigi Bowsers Inside Story
* [[Bomberman
** To give the game credit, at least they show death by compression into a singularity when it does hit you.
* The instructions for ''[[Crystal Quest|Crystal Crazy]]'' describe black holes as "rifts in the space-time continuum that instantly transport you from one place to another. Actually the time bit isn't really correct. Neither is the continuum bit. Or the rift. But it sounded good."
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* 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 (
* ''[[Star Fox (
* One is created after the defeat of the final boss in ''[[
* ''[[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.
** As a bit of further explanation how this odd effect came about: The original revealed Black Hole ability did in fact destroy the units. However, it was probably changed for balance reasons, but the graphics were not changed.
* In the ''[[Touhou]]'' fighting game ''Immaterial and Missing Power'', boss Suika Ibuki creates black holes using her ability to manipulate density. They can draw in the player character but do not damage the terrain and are not instantly lethal.
* In the ''[[
** Both of the above examples aren't fair. The Adept's singularity power is ''not'' a black hole - it is a mass effect field that creates warp in the space-time continuum and thus a gravity well ''akin'' to a black hole. Similarly, the Blackstorm Projector is ''colloquially'' called the "black-hole gun" (and the nickname was [[Played for Laughs]] in the Gamestop advert for it, but it in fact fires a particle encased in a high-powered mass effect field, which elevates it to colossal mass - thus creating a gravitational singularity. The explosions are caused when the mass effect field destabilizes. [[Applied Phlebotinum]], not [[Did Not Do the Research]].
** The {{spoiler|final dungeon}} in ''ME 2'' is a space station orbiting a black hole at the centre of the galaxy inside the accretion disc. It is possible to fly a spaceship around the place without getting burned or irradiated to death. The event horizon itself is visible in the distance, lacking gravitational redshift but having an unlikely size for something that would have a diameter of 10% of Earth's orbit in real life.
*** Mordin does speculate the area to be protected by powerful mass effect fields and radiation shields, which at least is an attempt to justify being able to pilot a ship within.
* ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'' had the Void, an [[Unrealistic Black Hole]] [[Sealed Evil in
* The [[Nazi Zombies]] mini-game of Black Ops has a small hand-held device<ref>Named the Gersch Device</ref> that when you press a few buttons and throw it the device generates a small black hole which sucks in all nearby zombies and which closes within a short period of time. Realistically the entire facility the character was on would have been sucked into the black hole if it were anything like a real one. What makes it even stranger is that the creator of the device notes that it was meant to be a portable teleporter which is proven if the player decides to jump into the black hole as it will teleport them to a random part of the map, so this makes you wonder why it acts as a destructive black hole on the zombies but only functions as if it were a worm hole if you touched it.
* ''[[X-COM]] Interceptor'' has semi-realistic black holes that can adversely affect travel on the interstellar map. They can suck in probes (and do so from a surprising distance away) and ships traveling near them are slowed by a significant amount as they try to escape the event horizon. The plot itself is set off by the discovery of an intercepted alien message that shows massive fleets flying into a black hole. It's initially suspected this is some kind of bizarre disposal method, but eventually it's discovered that {{spoiler|the aliens have figured out a way to turn black holes into wormholes to a [[Pocket Dimension]]}} where they are building a literally indestructible superweapon. The rest of the game turns into a race against time to find a way to counter the superweapon.
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== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[Transformers]]'', there have been two major black hole occurrences, both falling squarely in this territory:
** In ''[[Transformers Generation
** In ''[[Transformers Cybertron]],'' the entire plot revolves around the black hole created by the destruction of Unicron. It had many space and time-bending effects throughout the universe (and the ''multiverse,'' if we take [[All There in the Manual]] into account.) Of course, when you throw dark gods into the mix, you expect it to be a bit different from the mundane version...
*** And part of this is a dub induced fix. In ''Galaxy Force'' (the original Japanese version), the black hole sucked up Cybertron in the first episode. They later somehow ''get the planet back out, whole and undamaged.'' The implication being they landed on the surface and activated the [[MacGuffin]] du jour to do so, how did they not all die of horrible gravitational tearing and vaporization?
* [[Averted]] in the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode ''A Flight to Remember''. Bender still has some hope that his love interest, after falling through a black hole, may happen to just reappear safe somewhere else. Prof. Farnsworth, however, being both [[Genre Savvy]] and a brilliant scientist, after reassuring him by confirming his hypothesis, brutally explains to the others [[Sarcasm Mode|(with an eloquent gesture)]] that she's dead and gone.
** And [[Played Straight]] with the black hole itself being depicted as a highly-visible, blue-ish vortex.
* One episode of the [[
* The power of the main villain in [[LEGO]]'s ''[[Hero Factory]]'' is creating black holes, using a staff. As if the writer was aiming to play this trope straight as best as she could, they are actual holes you can jump into, and... cling onto their inner "walls". Even though the wall was intangible and characters simply floated through them [[Fridge Logic|in the previous scene]]. Their sucking power is so immense, they pull the weapons out of the Heroes' hands, but inside, you can freely jump around from wall to wall without falling deeper into it. Another interesting thing is that if you jump upwards into it, you end up on its wall, but if you climb out of it upwards, you will fall out downwards through its "bottom". And how can these black holes be neutralized? By throwing anti-gravity flying devices into them, of course. A severe case of [[You Fail Physics Forever]], or perhaps [[They Just Didn't Care]]?
* ''[[Hero Factory]]'''s predecessor ''[[Bionicle]]'' also played with this. When Nuhvok-Kal, the Bohrok-Kal of Gravity got too powerful for its own good, it turned into a miniature black hole. It didn't suck in anything else, in fact it was never described further. We have to assume the black hole simply evaporated.
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