Their journey continued. It was a strange experience. To Samuel it felt as if they weren’t moving at all, and as if space around them for several light-years was empty. Yet he knew they were moving extremely quickly, and that space in one particular spot not far enough away was about as far from empty as you could get.
Even with the advanced technology of his civilisation, black holes were still mysteries. More of their physics were understood than had been the case centuries before, but more was far from all.
Much of the knowledge they had came from probes sent skimming perilously close to the event horizon of black holes, the point at which nothing, not even light, could escape the black hole’s pull. In some ways the path he and the Suit were travelling was similar to those the pr
