To answer the burning questions in the command center, the closest operational probe to the sun began attempting to magnify its optical feeds.
Even without magnification, the anomaly within the sun was visible to the naked eye. That specific area was exceptionally bright, flaring white like an overloaded solar prominence. Yet, on the standard displays, nothing physical was visible, the blinding white patch seemed to appear out of thin air.
"Zoom in again!" Jason commanded.
The astrophysics team immediately executed a series of commands, switching the telescope's polarization and cranking the magnification. At this extreme zoom, they could only view a minuscule fraction of the sun's surface.
Finally, humanity saw the anomaly: a tiny, pitch-black dot on the screen, plummeting rapidly toward the solar core under the crushing weight of gravity.
"Increase magnification by a factor of ten!" Jason ordered.
