Figure E16 ACCRETION

Ascend: to see the monster at the heart,

Devourer of suns, a DARKLING STAR.

Although it seem that it must be the part

Of every mass to fall into this scar

Upon the void, geometry shall bar

Its passage, as the needle’s narrow eye

Will scarce admit the camel. It is far

More straitened, a pinpoint against a sky.

So, crowded at the gate, the fierce emissions sigh.