Black hole

Black hole

(Cosmos)

Type

Black hole

Orbit

None

Inhabitants

nightshades, sceaduinars

Satellites

None

Images of black holes

Source: People of the Stars, pg(s). 21

The religious symbol of The Devourer is a black hole with an accretion disk ringed with red blood.

A black hole, or singularity, forms when a dying star collapses with such gravitational force that it breaks through the planes and creates a gash in space that sucks everything nearby into a portal to the Void—effectively mirroring the portals to Creation's Forge found at the center of stars. Sceaduinars guard these void energy portals. Other rare occurrences involving powerful entities or artifacts can also spawn black holes.

Black holes' concentrated void energy causes nearby undead to become more powerful, and their destructive forces attract planet-sized nightshades.

The terminus of a black hole in the Void is called a dawn spiral.

The Banquet

The now-insane scholar Fulvia Nostraema wrote an essay, "Nihilism's Sacred Garrote," describing how the Dominion of the Black uses black holes as part of a ceremonial sacrifice ritual known as the Banquet, where the Dominion casts scores of creatures—and some of its own living spaceships—into the black hole's all-consuming gravitational well.

In religion

The nascent deity known as The Devourer seeks to create black holes, supernovas, and other cosmically destructive phenomena. Its religious symbol, the blood accretion, is a black hole with an accretion disk ringed with red blood.

References

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External links

• Black hole (real-world phenomenon) on Wikipedia