Black Holes in Fiction - Film and Television

Film and Television

• The Black Hole (1979), a major science fiction film featuring a derelict ship at the edge of a black hole.
• The Black Hole (2006), a science fiction film unrelated to the 1979 film.
• Event Horizon (film) (1997), a spaceship is created to travel faster than light by a machine that creates an artificial black hole to travel to Alpha Centauri. The ship actually passes into another universe.
• Treasure Planet (2002), in Disney's animated sci-fi version of Treasure Island, the RLS Legacy encounters a black hole, where a ruthless crew member named Scroop (Michael Wincott) cuts the lifeline of the overboard First Mate, Mr. Arrow (Roscoe Lee Browne), who is then pulled to his death in the black hole.
• Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006), a fantasy romantic comedy which features a black hole under a car's front passenger seat where things dropped into it vanish, and who the lead character escapes the afterlife from.
• Space Battleship Yamato: Resurrection (2009), A wandering cascade black hole is on a trajectory toward Earth. While escorting evacuation ships to a far away solar system, the Yamato and her crew have to find a way to stop it before Earth is destroyed.
• Star Trek (film) (2009), "red matter" is used by Spock to create an artificial black hole to absorb a supernova, and later by Nero to destroy Vulcan. Traversing through the black hole created caused the characters to travel through time and ultimately change the past.
• Maximum Shame (2010), a black hole is coming to swallow Earth and a couple escapes into a parallel universe.
• In the Star Trek universe, the Romulans are known to utilize artificial black holes (generally referred to as "artificial quantum singularities") as a power source. In at least two episodes, malfunctions cause "temporal anomalies" (abnormal time flow).
• In the television sci-fi adventure series Andromeda (2000), a black hole slows time for the hero, allowing him to survive into a new era.
• Several adventures in the British television series Doctor Who feature black holes or situations relating to them, notably "The Impossible Planet", "The Satan Pit", "The Horns of Nimon", "The Three Doctors" and "The Deadly Assassin".
• In the Blake's 7 story "Breakdown" the Liberator travels through a black hole.
• In the Stargate SG-1 episode A Matter of Time, a wormhole is opened to a planet near the event horizon of a black hole. Black holes play a major role in Stargate SG-1, and appear in many episodes.
• In the Battlestar Galactica episode "Daybreak Part 2", the Cylon Colony lies in an orbit around a black hole.
• In the Superman: The Animated Series episode Absolute Power, a black hole acts as a major plot device.
• In the Transformers episode called "the Killing Jar", Ultra Magnus, Cyclonus, Wreck-Gar and several other characters are transported through a black hole, only to find themselves trapped in a universe composed entirely of anti-matter.