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| Danler Spacial Chart | ||
| A representation of space around a ship. |
One of many depictions of a space "chart" showing the region of space around a ship. In this case, a black smear across the chart shows a "sink hole of space" or as we call it today, a "black hole".
| THEY went over to the Danler spacial chart and stood staring at it together. A black smear, twisted like a snake, cutting across the smooth ivory luminosity of the board — that was the Sink Hole.
Swinging across the upper end of that ebony blur they could trace the faint red line of the Walton Arc. A green sliver of glow was the Invincible; the ship crawled deliberately, it seemed to them, along the scarlet curve. As it crawled, it came nearer and nearer the blob of unfolding darkness that was the Hole. It seemed as though some one had spilled ink on the white surface of the chart, and the ink was spreading, spreading...
 (Danler Spacial Chart from 'Star Ship Invincible' by Frank K. Kelly) His cold glance swung to the spacial chart. The green blob had moved forward: nearly half of the red line had been eaten away, but the arc that remained was very near to the ebony blur of the dead spot. The Hole was widening like a hungry mouth - |
| Technovelgy from Star Ship Invincible,
by Frank K. Kelly. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1935 Additional resources -
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Compare to the black hole from Rift in Space, by Paul Ernst, published by Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1937.
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