According to Star Wars: The Essential Atlas and the Solo novels, the road to Kessel involved navigating a cluster of black holes known as 'the Maw'. This would typically take 18 parsecs ...

The Maw is, in Star Wars movie-verse, a giant cluster of black holes. When the Millennium Falcon navigated The Maw in Solo, this moment became part of its lore - as the ship that did the Kessel ...

But Solo isn't the Maw's first Star Wars appearance. Back in the EU days, the Maw was introduced in the Jedi Academy trilogy of books from the early '90s.

We've finally got our first actual look at Solo: A Star Wars Story, a prequel that will focus on the exploits of a younger Han Solo, before the events of the original trilogy. We’ve known for ...

Well, before you see Solo: A Star Wars Story, brush up on a bit of history from the galaxy far, far away on ... the Kessel Run is adjacent to the Maw cluster, a group of black holes which distort ...