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Event Horizon Drift
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Ongoing, First published May 12, 2025
A crewed probe mission orbits Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center, testing time-dilation instruments for interstellar navigation. When the station's local clocks begin to diverge from Earth-based synchronization in a way that can't be explained by relativity, a physicist suspects a massive drift in the black hole's accretion disk is triggering temporal anomalies. The mission becomes a race to collect the final readings before falling past the innermost stable orbit.
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