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Deadbeat
Apr 8, 2003

Reivax posted:

Weren't there numerous hints that someone planted a black hole in the Sun, starting its slow death?

Like alot of stuff in BOTNS it is heavily suggested, but never explicitly stated that The Old Sun is afflicted by a black hole. How it got there is not known but it is referred to, IIRC, as a worm that is eating the Sun's heart.

Also, there is speculation that the White Fountain that severian uses to bring about the New Sun is actually a 'white hole', a theoretical object in astrophysics that is the opposite of a black hole that emits stuff rather than swallowing it. I don't know if there's ever been found observational evidence of white holes, I think mostly they are theorized because of the symmetrical nature of most of physics.

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