Any tips for locating a black hole?

Panzerbeard

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Okay, so, I'm in a system that has a black hole. I've been flying around for some 20 minutes looking for the gravitation lensing effect, but I'm seeing nothing, I assume I have to get much closer to see it, but I can't seem to find any indication of whereabouts in the system it might be. Are there any telltale signs I should be looking for?

The system, for anyone who doesn't mind spoilers:
Maia, in the Pleiades Nebula
 

shrinkshooter

shrinkshooter
You must search between the buttcheeks, young grasshopper.

....sorry, I don't know anything, that's about as helpful as I can be :\
 

777Driver

777Driver
Panzerbeard said:
Okay, so, I'm in a system that has a black hole. I've been flying around for some 20 minutes looking for the gravitation lensing effect, but I'm seeing nothing, I assume I have to get much closer to see it, but I can't seem to find any indication of whereabouts in the system it might be. Are there any telltale signs I should be looking for?

The system, for anyone who doesn't mind spoilers:
Maia, in the Pleiades Nebula
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I take it you have a basic discovery scanner? Better still an advanced scanner will locate it immediately. I made the mistake of flying to Maia in a Type-7 with no basic scanner. An hour of flying around that beautiful system, but never found the black hole. Will return properly equipped

Btw, since you are there with possibly no scanner. The Black hole is near the outer stars (two stars) Not the 5 stars close to the system jump in point.
 
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777Driver

777Driver
Feldspar said:
The thing about space, right? Is it's black, and the thing about black holes, yeah? Well, they're black too.
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hehe, except MAIA is anything but Black, it is slap bang in the Center of the Nebula. Highly recommend a visit to anyone who has not been :)
 

SpacialKatana

SpacialKatana
777Driver said:
I take it you have a basic discovery scanner? Better still an advanced scanner will locate it immediately. I made the mistake of flying to Maia in a Type-7 with no basic scanner. An hour of flying around that beautiful system, but never found the black hole. Will return properly equipped

Btw, since you are there with possibly no scanner. The Black hole is near the outer stars (two stars) Not the 5 stars close to the system jump in point.
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I found Maia's black hole with a basic scanner...took about 20 mins...but I have da skillz :)
 

kastia

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It took me ages to find it with the basic scanner too. I knew the general area from looking at the orbit lines, I can't remember which body but one of them had an orbit line with nothing apparent within/at the opposite end. I just aimed for 2/3 of the way between the body and the end of the orbit line and flew around watching the speed indicator... the slower it gets the closer you are
 

Panzerbeard

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I actually found it shortly after posting that, I'd been using the Disco Scanner but wasn't getting close enough (I knew it was between those 2-3 brown dwarfs but couldn't pinpoint it exactly).

Visuals were a little disappointing, I was hoping there'd be some sort of accretion disk effect, but the gravitational lensing was fun to look at :)
 
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