While scouting for more loot, Matt saw five strangely symmetrical asteroids, roughly arranged in a ‘K’-shape around a barely noticeable, distorted ring of light. He might not have even noticed them if his Concept didn’t increasingly signal that the world was wrong in that direction. What started as an equivalent to slight white noise became a rather insistent spiritual tinnitus, before finally turning into someone raking their nails on a chalkboard as they got closer.
He was forced to look away and think about it for a few seconds, but then it clicked. The lensing effect was familiar to Matt, and he would have recognized it earlier, but the bright accretion disk usually associated with this object was missing.
“Is that a black hole?”
Aster jumped onto his shoulder, and after some inspec
