Eternal Light (2014)
“And the planetoid was in orbit around a massive red supergiant star about five light days from the black hole at the centre of the Galaxy, deep within the ragged oval of its accretion disc. Nearby, a vast arc of gas swept across the sky; a braided river of glowing filaments and streamers spiralling around magnetic field lines, so vast that the Solar System would have been no more than a leaf whirled away in its torrential energies, it curved in towards the black hole and extended far through th...e shell of gas clouds which surrounded the accretion disc.
Those same gas clouds, remnants of some vast explosion a hundred thousand years ago, also obscured most of the stars of the Galactic Centre. It was not like the tidy picture Dorthy had been given on P’thrsn, of a vast jewel-box of stars packed close together in tidy, stable orbits, shining clearly and cleanly around a black hole which had swept up all interstellar debris. Of the several million packed into the central parsec, only a few thousand were actually inside the shroud of gas.MoreLess
Those same gas clouds, remnants of some vast explosion a hundred thousand years ago, also obscured most of the stars of the Galactic Centre. It was not like the tidy picture Dorthy had been given on P’thrsn, of a vast jewel-box of stars packed close together in tidy, stable orbits, shining clearly and cleanly around a black hole which had swept up all interstellar debris. Of the several million packed into the central parsec, only a few thousand were actually inside the shroud of gas.MoreLess
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