Current Status
In the 2005 series, the Ninth Doctor revealed that Gallifrey and the Time Lords had been destroyed in a Time War. It is unclear if this means that the Eye of Harmony was also destroyed.
In the episodes "Boom Town" and "Utopia", the TARDIS needed to "refuel" by absorbing energy from a "scar" left by a closed space/time rift, implying that it is not powered entirely by the Eye at this time. The former episode also revealed that the TARDIS console concealed the "Heart of the TARDIS", a mysterious glowing energy source that the Doctor associated (in "The Parting of the Ways") with the energies of the time vortex.
The Tenth Doctor makes an oblique reference to the Eye's creation in the episode "The Satan Pit" when he says: "My people practically invented black holes. Well... in fact they did." The Master also mentions in The Sound of Drums that the rockets on Earth have "black hole manipulators", which suggests that the Time Lords have knowledge of the physics of black holes.
In the Doctor Who: The Adventure Games episode City of the Daleks, it is revealed that a Time Lord artifact called the Eye of Time was lost when Gallifrey vanished during the Time War. The Eye then fell into the hands of the Daleks, who install it on Skaro and use it to control all of time and space. The Doctor and Amy Pond are able to travel back to the moment when the Daleks activate the Eye and stop their plan, however, and the Eye vanishes once more. It is not clear if the Eye of Time is simply another name for the Eye of Harmony.
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