The Entity (TARDIS)

The Entity was an intellgent, yet malevolent golden ball of energy that was imprisoned by the Doctor in a special vase for murdering others by eating the time out of their lives.

Biology
The Entity fed on the Time energy of living beings, until the creature died of old age. The process took about an hour on the average human. Whilst the Entity was feeding, the individual it was feeding on appeared to have a golden "shell". On its own, the Entity appeared as a golden ball of energy floating in mid-air. (VG: TARDIS)

History
At some point in his past, the Doctor met the Entity, and placed it inside a vase in a safe in the TARDIS drawing room.

When the Eleventh Doctor was sucked into a spacetime riptide, Amy looked in the Doctor's drawing room for a tractor beam device to pull him back inside the TARDIS. Unfortunately, she knocked down a vase containing the Entity, and the Entity escaped. Later, when the Doctor was back in the TARDIS, a lesion in time caused Amy to be pulled into the TARDIS one thousand years in the future, where the Entity started feeding on her. The Doctor built a Tachyon Feedback Loop, which he sent to Amy to pull her back to the present TARDIS, and the Doctor told the Entity to stop feeding on her. The Entity agreed, and tried to feed on the Doctor. However, the Doctor trapped the Entity in another vase and told it that he would release into the riptide with the Chronomites, creatures that the Entity could feed on for eternity. The Doctor released the Entity to the Chronomites, but forgot to mention that the Chronomites were very itchy. (VG: TARDIS)