History PlayingWith / UnrealisticBlackHole

* '''Downplayed''': The black hole has no spin or electrical charge (a simple Schwarzschild black hole); most black holes found in nature are thought to have one or the other, if not both.

* '''Conversed''': "Why are these [[IdiotPlot idiots always being sucked into black holes?!]]"

** In the case of the above-mentioned Schwarzchild black hole, somebody needs a hypothetical situation, with the simplest scenario possible, for calculation or explanatory purposes.

** We need a ''very simple'' Schwarzchild black hole for a physics problem or brief explanation, even though they (probably) aren't found in nature, so we can do our calculations and whatnot without mucking things up for our students or the audience that knows little or nothing about how black holes ''actually'' work.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Schwarzchild black hole ahead, Captain!"

* '''Straight''':A spacecraft is [[GravitySucks sucked]] into a black hole, even though they are lightyears away from it.

* '''Downplayed''': The black hole has no spin or electrical charge (a simple Schwarzchild black hole); most black holes found in nature are thought to have one or the other, if not both.

* '''Zig Zagged''': A spacecraft gets simultaneously sucked in and repelled by a blend of a black hole and a white hole. How? [[QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything Quantum]] [[VoodoShark physics]].

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Played Straight''': A spacecraft is [[GravitySucks sucked]] into a black hole, even though they are lightyears away from it.
* '''Exaggerated''': The black hole in question acts like (quite literally) a cosmic vacuum cleaner, sucking up everything in the universe.

* '''Justified''': The spacecraft is in the "danger zone" of the black hole; while still quite a ways away from the event horizon, it's close enough that one simple misfire of the rocket thrusters could send them closer to it instead of getting them away from it.

* '''Inverted''': The spacecraft is ejected by, or catapulted away from a white hole, instead of being sucked into a black hole.

* '''Subverted''': TheCaptain can see that they are getting close to a black hole, because of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens gravitational lensing]].

* '''Double Subverted''': The spacecraft gets closer for whatever reason(s), and are literally vacuumed up (complete with [[SpaceIsNoisy sucking sounds]]) into the black hole.

* '''Deconstructed''':
* '''Reconstructed''':
* '''Parodied''': The black hole is someone's (very overpowered) vacuum cleaner.
** A road sign near it reads [[NegativeSpaceWedgie "Major Plot Point Ahead!"]]
*** Yet another sign reads "Danger! Black hole ahead!"
* '''Lampshaded''': "Schwarzchild black hole ahead, Captain!"
* '''Averted''': The black hole is portrayed realistically.

* '''Enforced''': We need a NegativeSpaceWedgie for our SpaceOpera or SciFi novel.

* '''Played For Drama''': Almost always is.
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* '''Basic Trope''': A black hole, as portrayed by HollywoodScience.
* '''Played Straight''': A spacecraft is [[GravitySucks sucked]] into a black hole, even though they are lightyears away from it.

* '''Justified''': The spacecraft is in the "danger zone" of the black hole; while still quite a ways away from the event horizon, it's close enough that one simple misfire of the rocket thrusters could send them closer to it instead of getting them away from it.
** Black holes aren't even fully understood by ''actual astrophysicists'' (let alone [[LowestCommonDenominator the average joe)]]; especially when the complexities of spin and charge and radiation are introduced, all sorts of crazy things can happen with them.
** In the case of the above-mentioned Schwarzchild black hole, somebody needs a hypothetical situation, with the simplest scenario possible, for calculation or explanatory purposes.

* '''Subverted''': TheCaptain can see that they are getting close to a black hole, because of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens gravitational lensing]].
** The craft experiences spaghettification from the gravity.

** Then they come out on the other side, like nothing ever happened.

** We need a ''very simple'' Schwarzchild black hole for a physics problem or brief explanation, even though they (probably) aren't found in nature, so we can do our calculations and whatnot without mucking things up for our students or the audience that knows little or nothing about how black holes ''actually'' work.
* '''Invoked''': Some gizmo aboard the spacecraft picks up X-rays thought to be coming from a (relatively close-by) black hole.

* '''Played For Laughs''': TheScrappy is being sent into one.
* '''Played For Drama''': Almost always is.

* '''Double Subverted''': The spacecraft gets closer for whatever reason(s), and are literally vacuumed up (complete with [[SpaceIsNoisy sucking sounds]]) into the black hole.