Orbiting a Black Hole

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I thought one day that it would be a good idea to grab myself a nifty starship like everyone else has, and I set off blindly knowing that if I went fast enough in one direction, I would eventually find something.

Well. I did.

Gravity gets in the way of things, though.

It's easy to see that black hole if it passes in front of something luminous. You can see how it warps the light from the star, and maybe even pulls it in and destroys it, after a sufficient amount of dimming. Maybe you can even see that star orbiting around that black hole at stunning speeds.

Those stars are unfortunate, they got pulled into something that they didn't expect. Something that will drain them,

Such a thing happened to my starship, but I couldn't see it coming. That's the problem with heading off willy-nilly without plotting a course.

The worst part is, that when you are stuck orbiting the black hole, time slows down. Everything remains the same for you and your black hole, and you see everything else speed up. All of the rest of the universe speed up. The other stars get on with their lives, and you see them progress, and you're just the same. The universe goes on without you. So here I am, orbiting the black hole. Other stars and other ships were caught too, but, from some trick of math that I can't determine, and will leave others who experience time slower than I to calculate, got ejected from the gravity well.

They probably figured it out a few milliseconds ago, from my perspective. From their perspective, I am an eternal fixture, but they have all gone on to something else, and I am still here. They've long since disappeared, even. Only minor alterations are made to me as time tick-tocks at different tempos.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Hmmm I like this one.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Hmmm I like this one.

This probably, and the Woke up this morning thread, accurately describes how I've been feeling for a long time, and why I'm ok with being back in school.