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Beyond the Black Hole

compilation album by Man or Astro-man?

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ4900080 ↗
Source-derived summary

Beyond the Black Hole is a Man or Astro-man? compilation featuring tracks that originally appeared on 7-inch EPs. It was released in 2001 on Estrus Records. This release features many of the same songs that were featured on the 1997 Australia-only release What Remains Inside a Black Hole.

Track listing

"The Wayward Meteor" – 2:56

"Rovers" – 2:11

"The Quatermass Phenomena" – 2:57

"Polaris" – 3:23

"The Vortex Beyond" – 2:21

"24 Hrs.

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“Beyond the Black Hole” enters the record as compilation album by Man or Astro-man. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Beyond, Black and Hole can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Beyond, Black and Hole.
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“Beyond the Black Hole” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Beyond, Black and Hole provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4900080. The first chronological checks are 2001 and 1997.

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Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Beyond the Black Hole” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.