Aug 03, 2025
The cover is great and concept sounds fun, but it would be morally wrong of me not to bitch about the catalyst of this story.
You see, BLACK HOLES DON'T SUCK THINGS. What would happen if the sun were to turn into a black hole? Would the solar system get crushed by the gravity? What would happen if you turned into a black hole? Would you crush your room and everything around you?
No, nothing would happen. If the sun were to somehow be compressed into a balck hole, disregarding the explosion this would cause and logistical issues like mass being expelled, planetary orbit would not be affected because the sun's mass would stay the same. In this sense, creating a 'black hole' would mean nothing because the black hole would just pop up and vanish a second later due to Hawking radiation. No one would die and the world wouldn't end. In fact, some physicists think that mini black holes spawn in and out of existence all the time, but the mass is so small that nobody cares. If you turned into a black hole, you'd just get Hawking radiation'd out of existence moments later, much like an artificial black hole created in a particle accelerator. Black holes aren't vacuums. Have a great day.