A black hole is a celestial phenomenon created when a massive star undergoes a supernova after exhausting its fusion reactions and collapsing inward. These black voids contain a singularity and possess intense gravity, consuming all nearby matter, even light, or accumulating it in an accretion disk.
At the center of the galaxy resides a supermassive black hole, around which stars orbit. This black hole is known as the Galactic Centre.
By 40 BBY, it became possible to capture images of a black hole from just outside its event horizon. Jape, Obi-Wan's friend, shared such images with him.
The Akkadese Maelstrom region surrounding the Kessel sector was home to a cluster of black holes, with The Maw being the most perilous. Beckett's gang, a cell of the criminal syndicate Crimson Dawn, including Lando Calrissian and the droid L3-37, found themselves trapped in that black hole and on the verge of being pulled in, but they utilized coaxium to power the Millennium Falcon and escape the black hole's gravitational pull.
Not long after the formation of the Galactic Empire, Lieutenant Commander Orson Krennic, along with Mas Amedda and others, journeyed to a binary black hole system known as the Hero Twins. There, they tested a prototype superlaser, which would eventually arm the Empire's planet-destroying battle station, the Death Star, by firing it at the remains of the dead stars.
The Executor-class Star Dreadnought Arbitrator met its end when, while trying to evade a New Republic fleet, incorrect hyperspace coordinates were entered into its [navicomputer](/article/navigation_computer]. This error caused the ship to emerge from hyperspace near a black hole, which subsequently pulled it in and destroyed it.