155: Chapter 155: Terrifying Black Holes and Time Travel

A big deal?

Chen Yu frowned, wondering if it was the remaining American remnants on Earth.

"Zhinao, what exactly happened on Earth?"

[Captain, just now, on Earth's Universal Colony, a former American military base on the southeastern Miami Peninsula was attacked by genetically modified humans. Satellites in space captured images of that massive submarine. According to analysis, there must be something they want in that abandoned military base.]

"Oh! Lock onto that submarine and send a few Attack Ships to sink it!"

[Captain, the submarine's signal has disappeared. We cannot find them.]

"Damn it, is there any way to find that thing!"

[Based on the technology available in your current permission level's tech library, you can build underwater probes. Release one probe every few hundred kilometers of ocean, and they will be locked on once they reappear.]

"Alright, send the information back to Huanyu Technology Park's intelligent system to build the probes you mentioned. I'm on a long voyage out here, so my home must be safe!"

[Yes, Captain.]

After dealing with Earth's matters, Chen Yu continued his daily training and study schedule.

Fortunately, Solara's company made this long journey less boring.

After less than half a year of flying, Chen Yu was in the training room absorbing cosmic bright energy.

Suddenly, the endless starry sky outside the training cabin's high-strength glass changed.

From moving as swiftly as a meteor passing by, it instantly seemed to become still.

At this moment, Zhinao's voice echoed in Chen Yu's mind.

[Captain, universal, according to the orbital program settings, the Warp Engine has been shut down at 10 million kilometers from the black hole, and it has now entered the conventional flight phase.]

"Are we finally here? Quickly, let me see what a black hole looks like!"

[Yes, Captain.]

Chen Yu called Solara and Xiao Jiazi and came to the universal's command room.

Outside the massive space glass, there was dead silence.

A cursor lit up on the glass, pointing Chen Yu to the location of the black hole.

Chen Yu looked intently but saw nothing.

Then, a spectral ray image appeared on the glass.

Immediately, Chen Yu was startled.

In the vast, dark, endless deep space, a gigantic spherical vortex formed by rays suddenly appeared.

Those rays seemed to circle around that black area.

The black hole's gravity was so immense that those energy rays were affected by gravity and bent directly.

"Wow, is this a black hole? It's so magnificent! It gives one the feeling that it can devour everything!"

Solara also gaped, looking at this wondrous scene in disbelief.

Although their Mesolas Star already had the technology to explore the edge of black holes.

But it was also Solara's first time truly seeing a black hole.

"This is just too incredible!" Solara exclaimed!

Chen Yu was also the first human from Earth to personally witness a black hole!

[Captain, this is just an ultra-small black hole. We are currently only 10 million kilometers from the black hole's edge. If we continue to approach, according to the gravitational time law, which is your Earth's theory of relativity, we will experience a time misalignment with the original universe. That is to say, if we spend an hour, Earth might have passed a month. If we continue to delve into the black hole's event horizon, this time misalignment could reach infinity, even to the point where one minute inside could mean thousands of years outside.]

Chen Yu recalled a movie on Earth called Interstellar.

In it, the male and female protagonists went to the edge of a black hole for a mission, and when they returned, the old black man on the mothership was already decades older.

This situation was very similar to the plot in the movie.

Chen Yu sighed at the wonder and greatness of nature, and the mystery and profundity of the universe.

Then Chen Yu thought of a question and asked in his mind:

'Zhinao, how do we go to the edge of the black hole to collect that strange energy matter?'

[Of course, by sending robots. Currently, the bright energy ray waves at the edge of the black hole are extremely powerful. If you get closer than 5 million kilometers, even as a Star-level 3 early-stage lifeform, you would not be able to withstand such strong rays, mainly because many rays, like neutrinos, can easily penetrate our spaceship's defenses.]

[Therefore, only by raising your own life level and having a physical body that can resist those strange bright energy rays can you explore deeper into more hostile parts of space.]

[For example, at the edge of the most terrifying celestial body in the universe, a quasar formed by a super black hole, because it has devoured the energy of an entire galaxy, there is a massive amount of various strange energy substances around it, but there are also even more terrifying various strange rays. Even a Star-level 6 lifeform cannot survive for long under such intense radiation.]

Under Zhinao's explanation, Chen Yu understood a lot.

'By the way, Zhinao, you said black holes can distort time. Have you ever thought about traveling to the future?'

[Captain, you are too smart! You are indeed a human whose brain region is about to break through 10%! Your thought just now has already touched upon the profound meaning of one-way time travel!]

Chen Yu was startled. What he had just thought was that if he wanted to travel to the future, he would just take a trip around the edge of a black hole.

'Are you saying that it's really possible to use black holes to travel to the future?'

[Yes, Captain. Let me explain it simply. Take this black hole, for example. Based on my detection of this black hole's gravity, its mass is approximately 98 times that of the sun, and its event horizon is only about 300 kilometers. That is to say, as long as the spaceship's strength is sufficient and the lifeform's level is higher, the stronger its ability to withstand gravitational stretching, then piloting a spaceship towards the black hole, as long as it doesn't exceed 300 kilometers from this black hole, it will not be swallowed by the black hole. However, approaching the black hole's event horizon for 1 minute, the external universe space will likely pass 10,000 years or even more, depending on the critical point of approaching the event horizon.]

[If the spaceship's strength can support it and your body's level is high enough, you can completely fly to the edge of the black hole, circle around, and come out. Then countless years will have passed outside, which is equivalent to time travel. And you would only feel like you flew towards the black hole and then flew out, perhaps only a few hours or even days would have passed in your time dimension.]

Chen Yu imagined those high-dimensional beings.

Even god-level civilizations of levels 8, 9, and 10, did they use this method for time travel?

For example, they sow their descendants on a planet, let them evolve on their own, and then circle a nearby black hole.

After coming out, hundreds of millions of years, or even longer, would have passed on this planet, wouldn't they immediately see the results of their sowing?

Transforming a planet is also the same; it requires hundreds of millions of years of evolution, but in front of these high-dimensional lifeforms, it might be completed in an instant.

Chen Yu and Zhinao had a brain-burning scientific conversation in their minds.

Finally, Chen Yu ordered Zhinao to send a robot fleet to approach the black hole to collect the strange energy matter needed to repair the Warp Engine.

On Chen Yu's universal homeworld-class mothership, all Attack Ships were dispatched.

When Zhinao built these Attack Ships, it designed them with collection devices.

Over 300 Attack Ships, all dispatched, headed towards the black hole...