  Non-trivial gravitational saddles have played a key role in the island
proposal for the black hole information paradox. It is worth asking if
non-trivial saddles exist in microscopic descriptions of black holes. We show
this to be the case for 1/8 BPS black holes in N = 8 String Theory in a duality
frame, where all charges are Ramond Ramond. The saddles are in the Coulomb
branch, where they describe marginally stable bound states of the constituent
branes, and correspond to vacua of the BFSS model. The non-perturbative
suppression scale is determined by the binding energy.
