After the Dwarfers used an intelligence compression technique to increase Holly's IQ, she discovered that her lifespan had been reduced to minutes. To preserve her run-time, she shut herself off and put Red Dwarf into emergency power mode. The crew had to fend for themselves, scavenging food from the cargo bays. The white hole glowed with a blinding white light and was surrounded by planets and two stars that had been expelled from its event horizon. There was also a lot of random gases and electromagnetic radiation being thrown out of the white hole.