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This forum is fantastic for people trying to write fiction that doesn't utterly trample physics. - Misericorde



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This forum is fantastic for people trying to write fiction that doesn't utterly trample physics. - Misericorde
A story has a lot more resonance to me if I can...

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Officer 1: "Oh no! That black hole has sucked up the entire Zeta system!"
Officer 2: "Isn't that system 5,000 ly away from the black hole?"

One of the earliest inaccuracies I noticed in fiction is about black holes. We occasionally see them as superpowerful funnels eating a galaxy or two. Or three.

In actuality a black hole's reach is limited. If the sun suddenly turned into a black hole (aliens did it!), the planets wouldn't be "sucked...