Blackhole

The black hole was Jagex's early punnishment in RuneScape Classic, before Jagex implemented the banning system. Players who misbehaved were sent to the black hole to serve punnishment for their actions, and would remain there for an undifined period of time before being removed. The Black Hole was implemented in 2001 and later removed from the live game on December 2001. Players of Old School RuneScape are able to visit The Black Hole by Activating the Disk of returning in the Dwarven Mines beneath Falador.

The Black Hole (Also known as Thordur's black hole) is a bleak place of darkness where the player is not able to move and blocked from teleporting out of the hole, this was done by simply removing the Law runes from the players inventory- making any means of escaping impossible.



The Black Hole Experience
Upon the official release of Thordur's black hole, players would deliberately misbehave just to visit this barren area and experience first hand what it's like to be there. Due to this, the decision was made by Andrew Gowerto program another black hole, only this one would be a clone. Those wishing to enter would visit Thordur in the western side of the Dwarven Mine under Falador, to purchase the Disk of returning for 10 Coins. Once the player obtained the Disk they were then able to enter the clone black hole by climbing down a ladder in the Dwarven Mine.

The Black Hole and it's clone were then removed from game in December 2001 because of a scam where players would ask one another to drop the Disk of returning, thus causing them to be stuck in the black hole until a member of Jagex staff removed them.

Although it has now been removed from RuneScape 3 players are still able to visit the black hole in Old School RuneScape after the release of the rare item: Disk of returning in 2013. Players wishing to enter the hole simply have to activate the Disk of returning in the Dwarven Mine to be teleported directly into the black hole where they will meet Thordur.

Postbag from the hedge (2006)
In the Postbag from the Hedge issue 6, Jagex released a response message for the removal of Thordur's black hole: