Re: "Rogue" black holes in SF?

David DeLaney wrote:
> James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> <Mark_Reichert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> On May 9, 7:18 am, na...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Anthony Nance) wrote:
>>>> I recently read a press release about a black hole getting ejected
>>>> from its parent galaxy, and the reaction/image that popped to mind
>>>> made me wonder if there are any SF stories that involve interactions
>>>> with "rogue" black holes (e.g. black holes "wandering" between
galaxies).
>>>>
>>>> Tony
>>> A small black hole p***** through part of the solar system in Varley's
>>> "The Black Hole P*****".
>> 	What was it that ripped the Earth away from the Sun in "A Pail of
Air"?
> 
> ...A passing star? Passing dwarf star? (I don't think ... okay, wiki
says
> "a passing 'dark star'". It was from 1951, so I don't think "black hole"
was
> a widespread enough concept yet to have made it into the SF
literature...
> ...okay, wiki notes that 'event horizon' didn't show up as a concept
until
> 1958, and the "black hole" term dates to 1967. Fair enough.)

There was a "black star" in _Skylark of Space_, a star so big that the 
escape velocity was higher than the speed of light. It wasn't a 
singularity though.