[ WP ] Sailors have always been a superstitious bunch . In the long stretches of darkness and isolation between stars superstitions still run high . So let 's hear a ghost story from deep space .

The called it the Black Dog. They said it was a massive black hole, gravity so powerful light could n't escape, and so much more science jargon. But what they were really interested in was the large yellow orb inside the Black Dog. What was it? A star? coalesced plasma? What could be bright enough to stand out against a black hole? 
 And that's what the crew of the Icarus sought, this strange body, and up until they vanished, they had followed instructions to the letter. They approached from the correct vector, at the correct speed to grab the gravity of whatever celestial body was stuck inside the lobsided inky blackness. The math did n't make sense. First, that the ship never suffered the intense gravitronic pull of the black hole. Second, that the ship attempted, ( and succeeded ) in reversing for a short distance before the ship itself vanished. And third, and most disturbing of all, the Black Dog was now getting closer and closer to Earth. 
 
 It took six months of sifting through data, with the Black Dog creeping closer, that one of the junior information techs was able to scavenge the last video feed transmission. 
 
 `` And Houston, we're on approach to Body designated Bravo-One-Kilo-Delta-Zero-Gamma. The Black Dog is big. Gravitronic measurements have fluctuated slightly, similar to a very big asteroid of small planetoid instead of any type of black hole numbers. And panning camera arm up to view mystery body Omega-Romeo-Bravo. A real diamond in the rough here, Houston. `` 
 NASA personnel stood, stunned, as the massive, pale yellow sphere came into view. Their awe quickly turned to horror, for as the astronauts onboard the Icarus frantically tried to reverse the ship, to change course, the Physicists realized that this threat was something they had not prepared for. The last few seconds of the feed, looping back on itself, displayed the mysterious orb in the Black Dog gazing back at the camera. 
 
 And blinking. 

