“Xeelee technology, Jasoft Parz,” the new Qax said. “The starbreaker...”
Where the cherry-red beam had struck, the surface of the ocean-globe seethed and steamed; huge bubbles erupted from the heart of the liquid, disrupting the delicate pattern of hexagonal turbulence cells. Mist wrapped around the churning globe.
“My God,” Parz breathed. “You’re killing it.”
“The beam consists of coherent gravity radiation,” the new Qax said, almost conversationally. “The form of the ocean fragment is maintained by a small black hole at its center. The action of the weapon has caused the equilibrium of the globe to be broken; it is now imploding toward the central singularity.”
-Timelike Infinity, Ch. 5