I found one the other day but was terrified to get too close! What's the closest anyone's been? Can you exit supercruise near one?
How close can you get to a black hole?
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Can't understand why heat is such a non-issue with black holes, while deadly with neutron stars? Is it just a glitch (allowed so players can see the pretty gravitational warp?) or is there an actual reason for it (if light can't escape, can heat?)
Good point, was wondering the same thing.
You can fall in, its no big deal, the damage is the same as with any other star. But the view is magnificent, you have to try it out some time!
I've heard of black holes emitting Hawking radiation which slowly causes them to decay. Not sure if this is what would cause this heat, though.
I'm not well read on the actual physics but I recall hearing that matter which falls into a black hole gets annahilated & emits a burst of radiation in the process.
I guess space dust that floats around in the system can get sucked in & cause this.
I'm not well read on the actual physics but I recall hearing that matter which falls into a black hole gets annahilated & emits a burst of radiation in the process.
I guess space dust that floats around in the system can get sucked in & cause this.
Only true if that black hole has an accretion disk at the time (i.e lots of matter falling into the potential well).
smaller ones you can get up to the body exclusion zone which is about 24.6km ofc you will be kicked outta SC before u get that close. as for the supermassive blackhole that heats you up a lot more than the smaller ones, im not sure if you get treated the same way as a smaller blackhole when you get kicked outta SC. maybe one day ill head back there when i dont have so much data.
I suppose in theory, you could get within a few ℓ [SUB]P [/SUB](plank units) of the singularity, that would technically be the closest you could get. But you'd long before that stop being you.
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It comes up with a warning of some sort, forget the term, but you can get no further. It is freaky though.. even though you are headed forward you appear to be going backwards.
Weird stuff but I would have thought the challenge in this repsect would have been not getting too close. Black holes are a phenomena that has a lot of interesting potential which I hope to see eventually. Like many of the stars it could be used as an energy source, perhaps even a way to twist space time and travel vast distances.
Warp gate time
Weird stuff but I would have thought the challenge in this repsect would have been not getting too close. Black holes are a phenomena that has a lot of interesting potential which I hope to see eventually. Like many of the stars it could be used as an energy source, perhaps even a way to twist space time and travel vast distances.
Warp gate time
Heat, in this case thermal radiation, is electromagnetic radiation, and so any heat generated within the event horizon would not be able to achieve an escape velocity of greater than C.
So in a nutshell no, heat cannot escape a black hole.
Hawking Radiation refers to the process of how a black hole can lose mass where a particle/anti-particle pair appear close to the event horizon. One of these particles falls into the black hole while the other escapes. In order to preserve total energy, the particle that fell in must have negative energy, and so the black hole loses mass.
perhaps even a way to twist space time and travel vast distances.
Warp gate time
it would be SUPER cool to implement this into the game, maybe not scientifically accurate, but then neither is getting within 24km of one, or travelling WAY above the speed of light like we do.
You can go INSIDE one if you find one without an exclusion zone. It's really awesome to fly around in the black hole with all the distortion. Only one that gave me heat problems was Sagittarius A.
Edit: Here is a screenshot.
Edit: Here is a screenshot.
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Why do you think they're worth so much to Stellar Cartography? As a hazard? Please, we already know where they are!
My theory is Black Holes will at some point be used as a shortcut for long distance travel - which will in fact keep exploration intact and not just be a "cross the galaxy in one go" shortcut. After all you'd still need to either get to or from the black hole to wherever it is you want to go.
Might be the updated version of the one-shot galactic hyperdrive from the original Elite?
That will be awesome. As long as they strive to make things more accurate, I'll be happy
Also, good to know about dormant black holes!
Dammit, we need an Elite-based science station (ala Radio-Sidewinder) for explorers to listen to as they travel the stars
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