It throbbed with an inhuman power, tidal and deep and painful. Look at this too long, Elvi thought, and I will lose my mind in it. She took a step toward it, feeling the structures in the blackness respond to her. She felt as if she could see the spaces between molecules in the air, like atoms themselves had become a thin fog, and for the first time she could see the true shape of reality looming up just beyond her reach. . James S.A. Corey
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Elvi has looked at the black hole for too long, and she will lose all sense of reality. The black hole is the shape of reality, but it should be impossible to see because it takes up so much space that it shouldn’t be possible to see it with the naked eye. It is this effect that has drawn her to the black hole, and now she is seeing reality in a different way than before.

Source: Cibola Burn

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