The thing is we dont know exactly how a Jump Gate (That doesn't exist) is built or even works. So for example we cant specify that the problem was a anomolous fission in he actinide decouplers.
Like you said, we can only speculate. So technically we cant answer this question apart from briefly describing what happened.
' Wrote:You can't see blackholes... what you can see is the accretion disk, which may not exist if there is no materials for the blackhole to "suck in"
I'll again reference to the same backstory where the Black Hole is mentioned saying that it looks like a giant swirling eye.
Okay, since we have the Texas -> Nowhere gate thing straightened out, what of the Magellan -> NY gate?
A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay,
brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.