"Black hole" was a nickname given to a number of anonymous and undisclosed spaceships during the Legacy era that were suspected of being operated by the Imperial Intelligence Service or the Imperial Special Operations Command. These spaceships were suspected of being of mobile prisons and torture facilities, where prisoners whose incarceration was illegal by Imperial law were taken. After the apprehension of these individuals, they were taken from their home worlds onto black hole vessels, where they were made to effectively disappear from the galaxy, a "forced disappearance" from their native worlds and communities. Upon these black holes, it was believed that Imperial Special Forces and Imperial Intelligence agents imprisoned high-value captives indefinitely, without right to a fair tria