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How did Cooper and Brand survive Gargantua's gravity?
If you're in free fall, the gravitational force has no effect on you at all, no matter how strong it may be. The only thing that causes problems is the tidal force, which is the difference in the ...
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Trying to remember a Sci-fi movie or TV series where a human space fighter pilot chases an alien space fighter craft to the edge of a black hole
This sounds like the 5th episode of Space Above and Beyond, entitled "Ray Butts".
Quoting from this summary:
It becomes clear that the Chigs are trying to corral the squadron
towards a ...
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In Dragon's Egg, the effect on time due to extremely high gravity is inconsistent
You're mistaking the "living rate" of the Cheela against the Einsteinian General Relativity time dilation in Interstellar.
This was explained early in Dragon's Egg, during the exposition ...
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short story about astronauts who enter a black hole and witness the death of the universe
First, let me transcribe the relevant portion of that podcast starting around 00:24:20:
Well, yet another proposal being circulated that I personally think is promising is the ramjet fusion engine. ...
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The risk of the TARDIS safeguard
While we've never seen the TARDIS explicitly enter a black hole and return, there is good reason to believe that she's perfectly capable of doing so.
1: The Eye of Harmony
Though continuity is a ...
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Old Movie About a space ship flying into the black hole featuring villain with robotic hand
This is Disney's The Black Hole (1979).
The ending with the scientist adrift in a reddish landscape is fairly iconic.
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50's/60's (?) sci fi movie: exploration spaceship escapes a star's supernova, ends up in another universe after being sucked in a black hole
Into Infinity, also known as The Day After Tomorrow (1976), a British TV special?
Apart from it being made in the 70s, the Wikipedia summary seems to match your description:
A fail-safe brings the ...
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In Dragon's Egg, the effect on time due to extremely high gravity is inconsistent
The "Technical Appendix" at the back of Dragon's Egg is very detailed in the description of the neutron star, the cheela, the Dragon Slayer's orbit, and everything else about the expedition.
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Looking for a manga about a manufactured black hole, planet with weird tidal forces, etc
The first story is the first chapter of volume 2 of 2001 Nights, from 1984. It was licensed by Viz, but appears to have expired.
I haven't checked the other stories in the description, but I'd be ...
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Sci-fi book with a generational spaceship traveling the interstellar void
Look like my wild guess was correct. OP confirmed that they were looking for the Great Ship series by Robert Reed:
In the distant future, an enormous ship larger than many worlds is
discovered ...
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Old Movie About a space ship flying into the black hole featuring villain with robotic hand
This really sounds like the 1979 Disney file The Black Hole, especially the ending you describe. Quoting from the plot summary on Wikipedia:
The spacecraft USS Palomino has nearly completed its ...
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Short story I read in a collection by several authors, ship rides to edge of the universe and back, experiences big bang
James Blish's A Clash of Cymbals involves the Manhattan island of the city of New York (pictured here in a Chriss Foss cover) flying to a point of zero space-time stress, using a device called a "...
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Short story I read in a collection by several authors, ship rides to edge of the universe and back, experiences big bang
Could be Tau Zero by Poul Anderson. Ship has engine troubles and keeps going faster and faster. Time slows and they ride out the end of the universe and a new big bang.
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