In Dan Simmon's Hyperion, the Earth got gobbled up by a black hole in this way. It's a good schema to get all the baggage of Earth out of the novel. He just s

In Dan Simmon's Hyperion, the Earth got gobbled up by a black hole in this way. It's a good schema to get all the baggage of Earth out of the novel. He just says, whoops, earth got eaten, don't worry about Yosemite anymore, now here are some space monks that live in huge bubbled space trees. Much more fun than having to explain things minutely.