Black Holes
- Thread starter Krow
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the in game galaxy is modelled after the real thing so yes there will be black holes in it, as for naming one after your ex i think i can safely say that one is going to be a 'NO' even if she does crush the life out of anyone who gets close
If you look hard enough in the galaxy map, you can find systems with black holes in them. None in the playable area as far as I know, but they wouldn't let the system place black holes on the galaxy map if they had no intention of including them.
There's one at 36LY away from the player area. It's a 4 star system with 1 black hole. There's a screenshot somewhere on the forums. Sorry can't remember where I saw it, it was somewhere last week.
Pretty sure I saw that one too. I think the system was called Glesting or something like that.
...even if she does crush the life out of anyone who gets close
LOL, nice work guys
But yes, there will be black holes in the game that I believe you can visit and check out (probably from quite far back!). Haven't seen any graphical representation yet. I don't believe you can name anything and even if you could, it would first go through a vetting process at FD
- Hyp3rion
the in game galaxy is modelled after the real thing so yes there will be black holes in it, as for naming one after your ex i think i can safely say that one is going to be a 'NO' even if she does crush the life out of anyone who gets close
That made me laugh way harder than what I should have
the in game galaxy is modelled after the real thing so yes there will be black holes in it, as for naming one after your ex i think i can safely say that one is going to be a 'NO' even if she does crush the life out of anyone who gets close
New one every day
I feel like there's a new thread every day asking if black holes will be in game.. Use the search bar before asking! And as cool as a black hole sounds, would you REALLY want them in the game? You're flying towards a planet loaded up with a million credits worth of goods, all the sudden your screens/equipment start to malfunction and your ship starts to pull Ina direction you're not flying. You panic you have no idea what's going on, the pull is stronger now, you try to go into sc or hyperspace but your Mass locked! Oh no! Then faster and faster until you're sucked into the dark abyss and it's back to square one..
I feel like there's a new thread every day asking if black holes will be in game.. Use the search bar before asking! And as cool as a black hole sounds, would you REALLY want them in the game? You're flying towards a planet loaded up with a million credits worth of goods, all the sudden your screens/equipment start to malfunction and your ship starts to pull Ina direction you're not flying. You panic you have no idea what's going on, the pull is stronger now, you try to go into sc or hyperspace but your Mass locked! Oh no! Then faster and faster until you're sucked into the dark abyss and it's back to square one..
A star system wouldn't have a black hole in it or a black hole can't have any object that is not a star some LY away. Plus handling black holes in the game would be a great issue since it requires some serious newtonian physics implementation that isn't affecting players (like gravity) and a black hole would just be a cosmetic unrealistic object. Mass lock atm isn't given by physics of an object in the system but from the distance inside a rendered cell from a trigger placed that inhibits jump or Super cruise. I managed to supercruise at 5 km of a station that i prevented to render in the game engine by being part of the deep space instance where the trigger wasn't present. The mass lock is a trigger isn't a real physic thing.
Sheesh.. it was just a bit of afternoon light Australian humor. (Thankfully a few people got it
)I actually post genuine questions in the Elite Beta Discussion section. "!"
If you come across something that annoys you perhaps you could just keep moving.
Just a suggestion.
LOL, nice work guys
But yes, there will be black holes in the game that I believe you can visit and check out (probably from quite far back!). Haven't seen any graphical representation yet. I don't believe you can name anything and even if you could, it would first go through a vetting process at FD
- Hyp3rion
Insert obligatory (redacted/censored) joke about brown dwarfs here.
Huh? A Blackhole is just a very massive object, nothing special about it in that regard, no reason that I am aware of that it couldn't have orbiting objects.
Black holes stretch space and time with their massive gravitational pull. A black hole is formed after a star inflating in a red giant running out of fuel and starting to burn heavy elements (destroying close orbiting objects) then collpasing into a supernova at wich state it implodes releasing a massive shockwave that pulverizes everything in the system (planets included) and beyond emitting gasses for LY distances sometimes as wide as entire galaxyes. Then collpasing in a single small point (so not turning into a neutron star or a pulsar because it's massive enough) the mass increases the gravitational pull litterally eating all the matter and the gasses around further increasing the mass of the black hole and it's gravitatinal pull to the infinite as long as it eats matter eating everything around and influencing the gravity and the stars revolutions LY around it. It also reaches the point where the gravitatinal pull breaks the common physics laws and not even light can escape it's gravitational pull because it just doesn't travel fast enough OR (as some theorists say) the space/time is stretched at the infinite point so nothing, not even light, run for an infinite amount of time could pass the event horizon and get rid of the gravitational pull of a black hole. SO no light= black hole.
Quasars are Black holes just observed from a different perpective and they are bright because what you see isn't the black hole but the radiations and the super heated gasses emitted following the magnetic field around a black hole after It ate matter including the elusive hawking radiation (wich is just theory for now)
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Cygnus X-1 is in the game (under its system name of HDE 226868) at a distance of just over 700ly from the beta bubble iirc. Its widely accepted the system contains a black hole as a source of x-ray signals but the info gives no further details, its probs marked as unexplored due to its distance. But 700ly seems a reasonably reachable distance in full game?
There are plenty of candidates for black hole/star binary systems. The event horizon of a black hole isn't believed to be that large, even the supermassive one believed to be at the centre of the milky way is estimated to be no larger than 17light hours in diameter, most likely smaller. Theoretically anything can orbit it outside of this boundary unless I'm mistaken.
There are cases of binary system where the light we receive from a star orbiting a black hole (so we observe the past) shows orbiting stars. In eons the star would inevitably be pulled and assimilated by the black hole increasing his mass. Supermassive black holes aren't (theorically) to be considered massive as in size but in mass still condensed in a space not bigger than a golf ball. That's what creates the singularity and the event horizon is believed to be the edge of the space/time stretched at wich point we cannot see because light (or time) can't give us informations about what's beyond it because it will take an infinite amount of time to escape so it will never happen. It's theory of course. There are cases of 2 black holes interacting and orbiting and they'll form a unique one when the weaker one will be absorbed. Black holes or neutron stars or pulsars may have orbiting bodies formed due to the residue of the implosion compacted by gravity during the revolution just like the solar system formed billions of years ago. If it's a black hole it will inevitably eat everything inside the escape requirements, which are insanely high.
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Still no reason why something can't orbit a blackhole or capture a wandering blackhole, They can be of all sizes, they don't all have to be huge.
While i'm sure quite rare, it would be cool to visit a system with a black hole.