Black Hole Questions

[idahosurge]

Just found my first black hole.

- How close can you get?

There was nothing to see at the one I found except for back round distortions as you flew by. Kind of like the stars behind the distortion were rolling along.

- If you get close enough can you see the black hole or does it depend on the one you are at?

I have seen pictures in the forums of a black spot in the middle and around the center (black spot) there was like a ring for lack of a better way to describe it.

 

[Branithar]

You can very slowly approach the black how and you'll safely drop out of supercruise, and see it up close. You won't get sucked into it. When going back into supercruise just make sure the black hole is behind you on the radar or you'll take heat damage.

 

[iain666]

The "black spot in the middle and around the center (black spot) there was like a ring" is what "the stars behind the distortion were rolling along" looks like if you come to a stop with a dense star field behind the black hole. You won't see the actual black hole, just a gap where you can't see anything on the other side with the gravitational lensing turning the stars beyond into that distinctive ring pattern - as a wise computer once said "Well, the thing about a black hole - it's main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour - is it's black. So how are you supposed to see them?"

 

[Jitkaas]

You can very slowly approach the black how and you'll safely drop out of supercruise, and see it up close. You won't get sucked into it. When going back into supercruise just make sure the black hole is behind you on the radar or you'll take heat damage.

Hell, you can crash right into the damn thing at SC and take normal damage. Black holes are ironically the least dangerous thing in the game

 

[Burke]

I took a passenger mission to "the great annihilator" Dropped out of warp and crashed straight into it, totally black, cant see anything so i very slowly flip my ship over (with terrifyed sweaty palms cause i got like 250mil in passengers) boost away once and frameshift. There was a moment where i wasnt sure if i was going backwards or forwards and it did actually look like i got sucked in, but then there was an orb of galaxy up ahead and it was like the dropping in scene from interstellar but in reverse and i burst back out into the galaxy again! I think it was a pretty damn good impression of a gravity well but having "cheat" engines got me out. I feel like i got my moneys worth out of the game in that moment tbh. There was a thread i saw talking about how black does it get. Quite black.

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[Carabeener]

The "black spot in the middle and around the center (black spot) there was like a ring" is what "the stars behind the distortion were rolling along" looks like if you come to a stop with a dense star field behind the black hole. You won't see the actual black hole, just a gap where you can't see anything on the other side with the gravitational lensing turning the stars beyond into that distinctive ring pattern - as a wise computer once said "Well, the thing about a black hole - it's main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour - is it's black. So how are you supposed to see them?"

They are like buses, none for ages then 6 come along at once! He he!

 

[cmdr underhill]

I took a passenger mission to "the great annihilator" Dropped out of warp and crashed straight into it, totally black, cant see anything so i very slowly flip my ship over (with terrifyed sweaty palms cause i got like 250mil in passengers) boost away once and frameshift. There was a moment where i wasnt sure if i was going backwards or forwards and it did actually look like i got sucked in, but then there was an orb of galaxy up ahead and it was like the dropping in scene from interstellar but in reverse and i burst back out into the galaxy again! I think it was a pretty damn good impression of a gravity well but having "cheat" engines got me out. I feel like i got my moneys worth out of the game in that moment tbh. There was a thread i saw talking about how black does it get. Quite black.

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Yeah, the lensing effect gets really intense when you get right up to it. Pretty trippy! 'Course it's (so far) impossible to get sucked in. Current 2.3 patch notes seem like they fixed the exploit but you still just get "exclusion zone'd".