Black Hole
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Black Hole is an unlockable activated item added in The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth † (Booster Pack #1).
Effects
- Upon use, Isaac throws a black hole that lands on the ground and forcefully sucks in enemies and their shots, which lasts for about 6 seconds.
- It deals 0.4 damage per tick very rapidly to enemies in the area, for a maximum of 6 damage per second.
- Isaac and pickups are slightly sucked towards the black hole.
- Nearby obstacles are occasionally destroyed by the black hole.
Notes
- Black Hole can pull pickups across pits, and may pull pickups to areas where they are unobtainable.
- Black Hole cannot free
Sticky Nickels, kill 
Shopkeepers, or destroy Angels Statues. - Black Hole has the strongest pulling effect in the game, and will override the pulling force of
Strange Attractor, 
Super Magnet, 
Ocular Rift, and 
Lodestone. - Black Hole can't open
Secret Room and 
Super Secret Rooms regardless of placement, despite crushing obstacles. - Black Hole does not suck in stationary or invincible enemies.
- Black Hole will not suck in the following bosses, although they can still take damage from the black hole and their shots are affected by it:
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The Adversary -
The Beast -
Big Horn -
Blighted Ovum (Suture) -
Brownie -
The Cage -
Chimera -
Clog -
Colostomia (second phase) -
Daddy Long Legs -
Dangle -
Dark One -
Delirium -
Dingle -
Dogma -
Gabriel -
The Gate -
Great Gideon -
Gurdy Jr. -
Gurdy -
Hornfel (in minecart) -
Hush -
Isaac -
It Lives -
Mama Gurdy -
The Matriarch -
Mega Fatty -
Mega Maw -
Mega Satan -
Mom's Heart -
Mom -
Mother -
Mr. Fred -
The Pile -
Polycephalus -
Rotgut -
Satan -
The Scourge -
The Shell -
The Siren -
Sisters Vis -
The Stain -
Triachnid -
Tuff Twins -
Turdlet -
Ultra Death -
Ultra Famine -
Ultra Greed -
Ultra Pestilence -
Ultra War -
Uriel -
The Visage (first phase)
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Synergies
Book of Virtues: Spawns black wisps on the middle ring. Wisps' tears have the Strange Attractor effect.
Interactions
Car Battery: No effect.
Gnawed Leaf: The black hole does not pull Isaac in while he is a statue.
In-game Footage
Trivia
- Black Hole is based on this Steam Workshop item by Custom Phase.
Bugs
 Bug!
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 Falling into a  Pitfall while the Black Hole is active will result in Isaac becoming headless, immobile and invulnerable, softlocking the run until it is quit and resumed.
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 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
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