“Will that little sun really be able to shine forever?” Yi Yi asked Li Bai. “At the very least, it will last until the new Earth civilization is advanced enough to create a new sun. It is a miniature white hole.” “White hole? Is that the inverse of a black hole?” asked Bigtooth. “Yes, it’s connected through a wormhole to a black hole orbiting a star, two million light-years away. The black hole sucks in the star’s light, which is released here. Think of the sun as one end of a fiber-optic cable running through hyperspace.”