Free Web NovelChapter 662: Chapter 489: Energy Black Hole
Seven days ago.
Lu Li left the Prophet Great Hall and immediately delved into the Omega Star Cluster to closely observe the internal black hole.
Centaurus Omega is the brightest and largest globular cluster in the Milky Way Galaxy.
An awe-inspiring spectacle visible to the naked eye, it is commonly referred to as the Omega Star Cluster.
As a celestial body containing millions or even tens of millions of stars, the Omega Star Cluster is astonishingly massive.
The cluster has a diameter of one hundred and fifty light-years and is estimated to have existed for twelve billion years.
As soon as Lu Li reached the cluster’s center, he immediately felt an immense gravitational pull trying to draw him in.
He immediately stabilized his position using energy to counteract the pull.
At this moment, Lu Li finally observed the specific appearance of this black hole.
Its size is similar to Mars, yet Lu Li’s senses detected its terrifying mass, astonishingly fifty thousand times that of the sun!
This is a medium-mass black hole, with no visible stars within tens of light-years around it.
The distant stars are captured and held within a certain range by its massive gravitational pull, neither swallowed nor able to escape.
This is what forms the spectacular "globular cluster" phenomenon.
What is a medium-mass black hole?
Black holes are generally categorized into micro black holes, stellar-mass black holes, medium-mass black holes, and supermassive black holes.
Micro black holes, also known as quantum black holes or mini black holes, are very small black holes.
Their mass ranges from a few electron volts to several times the solar mass.
Next are stellar-mass black holes.
These have a relatively large mass.
Approximately twenty to one hundred times that of the sun.
Generally under one hundred times.
Medium-mass black holes are different.
Their mass ranges from one hundred to one hundred thousand times the solar mass.
If it’s a supermassive black hole, it’s even more terrifying, as the starting point is one hundred thousand times the solar mass, potentially reaching tens of billions of times.
For instance, near the Galactic North Pole of Canis Major, there’s a supermassive black hole.
According to measurements by the Galaxy Alliance, this black hole’s mass is sixty-six billion times that of the sun.
Although the black hole before him is just a medium-mass black hole, its mass, fifty thousand times that of the sun, is unbelievably terrifying.
Lu Li observed that in its vicinity, even photons couldn’t escape, as they were drawn in by the powerful gravity.
Moreover, he sensed that the density inside the black hole is extremely high, even exceeding the density of an atomic nucleus.
If this were all, it wouldn’t be enough to astonish someone.
Lu Li discovered that upon entering the absolute gravitational range of the black hole, time and space seemed to become distorted.
"A black hole with a size only as large as Mars but having fifty thousand times the solar mass?"
He found it somewhat inconceivable and wanted to see what was happening inside the black hole.
Very soon, Lu Li observed it.
The inside of the black hole was an energy conglomerate.
There were no secrets to be found.
The reason for its immense gravity was simply because it had enough mass.
Lu Li was somewhat dumbfounded, "Just because the mass is sufficiently large, it can create such terrifying gravity?"
As soon as this thought arose, he suddenly recalled that ever since entering his sixth deep evolution, he seemed to have overlooked one thing—quantitative change leads to qualitative change!
When the quantity of something accumulates to a certain level, it naturally generates quality.
The core theory of this rule is:
Quantitative change is the necessary preparation for qualitative change, and qualitative change is the inevitable result of quantitative change.
Qualitative change not only completes quantitative change but also paves the way for new quantitative changes.
The medium-mass black hole he observed was precisely in this state.
Due to its incredibly massive mass, it underwent a qualitative change, giving birth to an energy conglomerate internally and exerting infinite gravitational force around it.
Lu Li mused, "Since my sixth deep evolution, I seem to have only focused on how much energy has increased, forgetting to let it undergo a qualitative change."
Based on the current natural progression, as his energy "quantity" reaches a certain level, it will naturally undergo qualitative change and then enter the next stage, the seventh deep evolution.
In fact, this situation can be artificially intervened.
As long as Lu Li finds a way to make his energy undergo qualitative change, he can actually advance to the seventh deep evolution early.
After evolving, he can pave the way for new quantitative changes.
"To make energy undergo qualitative change, the method is relatively simple, just like a black hole, infinitely compressing it should hopefully lead to qualitative change."
Lu Li kept pondering, "I have only one question now. If I compress energy to the ’density’ of a black hole, it will produce enormous ’gravity.’ How then can the energy be released?"
Energy compressed infinitely can potentially become matter.
Once it becomes matter, to utilize the energy, it must be decomposed or annihilated to generate energy.
Isn’t this a redundant action?
Therefore, Lu Li contemplated what might happen after energy is infinitely compressed and whether it would make controlling the energy more challenging.
He couldn’t think of a conclusion and decided to observe more black holes to see if he could gather any inspiration.
Lu Li didn’t linger here for long, immediately transforming into a state of "will" and plunged into the endless starry sky, searching for other black holes.
Over the course of the following day, he searched for numerous black holes.
The results observed were almost identical, offering little help in "upgrading."
