Black holes

Black holes are areas in space so dense that they infinitely warp space time, and have gravitational forces beyond which light can escape. The first black hole was discovered in 1970, in the Cygnus X-1 system. The Cygnus X-1 system is believed to hold a stellar mass black hole devouring a blue supergiant identified as HDE 226868.

History
Black holes have had numerous tests by the Pineapple Empire, but their gravitational force was far too big to overcome, and projects regarding black holes were cancelled in 2306. However, breakthroughs with an aggressive alien civilization suggest black holes can be harnessed for energy, despite their ruthless gravity. The reasons are unknown. The most massive black hole ever, identified as S5 0014+813, with a mind boggling diameter of 236.7 billion kilometres (well past the largest star and beyond the solar system), and a mass of 40 billion solar masses, has recently been posed as a potentially massive threat, in fear that black holes could be ejected towards the Pineapple Empire.