It was Tuesday afternoon. The light was doing that thing through the kitchen window. You had turned past the recipes, past a crossword you'd already done, past the horoscope โ to the last page.
A black hole the size of the sun has appeared in our solar system. It is consuming everything. The Earth has days left.
Three volunteers โ scientists โ will fly up to try to stop it. They are carrying a device that reshapes their ship's emissions into tuned gravitational waves. Match the hole's resonant frequency, and the mass bleeds out as Hawking radiation faster than it can accrete.
The last line of the article names the third volunteer.
you.