Blackhole “Caretaker“ signal [Voices of the Void ]

The blackhole its self seems to have some sort of alien object that orbits around it. Unfortunately the computer only saves it as an still image so you have to take my word for that. This seems to be One of the largest signals in the game and also one of the longest to download and longest in overall length. The song that plays during this signal is the final 5 minutes of the last Caretaker album off of the Everywhere At The End Of Time project, which is about a person (the Caretaker) getting dementia and slowly over the course of 6 albums each roughly 1 hour give or take where the music begins as calming loops of older 1950’s music that slowly devolves by getting glitchier and glitchier before falling into jumbles of harsh noises, then into long bouts of drone music before finally abruptly dropping into around 30 seconds of silence as a choir begins to sing out, indicating the passing of the “Caretaker“ both as a character and as a project. There are many interpretations as to what the last 5 minutes of EATEOT means. Approaching the Afterlife? Life flashing before your eyes? Terminal lucidity? It’s not totally clear and its meaning differs from person to person. I can assume however its inclusion in this game is supposed to symbolize a sort of heat-death or the death of the universe its self as the blackhole swallows everything that encroaches its domain. Perhaps the structure built around it is to protect anything that gets too close to it, as to slow the inevitable destruction of reality its self. Who knows? This is my favorite signal in the game.