The precious picture before us clearly depicted a black hole, a black region surrounded by a border of light. Like an unseen beast, it silently hid in its corner of the universe. The black region gave off a sensation of deep and profound darkness, as though it was an endless abyss.

And within the Schwarzschild radius, numerous objects could be seen. The final picture taken by laser ray photography was much clearer than all the previous pictures we had received. All the indistinct regions in the previous pictures could be clearly seen in this picture.

All of us could see that at the boundary between the Schwarzschild radius and the event horizon, countless stars, planets, comets, meteors, and even the two drones we had lost contact with could be seen.

That was a sight that far exceeded our understanding and existing knowledge about black holes. Within the darkness of the black hole, other...