Are black holes dangerous?

thehairymob

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If yo fly into them, yes. But really so far I have found them to be safe provided you don't go racing towards them. I treat them like any other star which has so far kept me safe. :)
 

Lodorenos

Lodorenos
Danger when you get too close huh? My ASP would like a word with those spreading these rumours.

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Varrag

Varrag
Frank_G said:
I bet real ones are far more dangerous. The ones in Elite have no gravitational pull, but they emitt a load of radiation, so getting too close could boil your systems.
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OP: no, they are not dangerous at all.

Black holes in ED are all dormant: these black holes do not emit any radiation except the theoretical Hawking radiation, which should be miniscule. Only danger you'd be exposed to IRL is that you approach the event horizon (a dozen kilometers for stellar mass black hole), which is not allowed in game (exclusion zone - you just auto-bounce back if you try to crash into the BH).

Active/feeding black holes are different story, but they are not represented in game, yet.
 
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Guyperson

Guyperson
Black holes are treated exactly like stars in ED. You will heat up on approach until destroyed by heat damage if you remain too close.
 

Varrag

Varrag
Guyperson said:
Black holes are treated exactly like stars in ED. You will heat up on approach until destroyed by heat damage if you remain too close.
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Perhaps I've missed something, but not the single BH I've visited in last couple weeks caused overheating. How could they after all - their temperature is absolute zero.
 

JonnyC0mbat

JonnyC0mbat
I almost got cooked by a small black hole a month back. Maybe they have been changed since, but I learned my lesson not to get too close again.
 

Varrag

Varrag
^^ yeah, now you can hang out near them for as long as you like, they removed overheating which made no sense anyway. Sleeping black holes are cold, and I mean REALLY cold :)
 

Nutter

Nutter
Guyperson said:
Black holes are treated exactly like stars in ED. You will heat up on approach until destroyed by heat damage if you remain too close.
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Not so...

You can fly up until you hit a range limit.

Black holes are safer than Suns and it is impossible to be killed by a black hole by heat.

Proof here [VIDEO]
[video]https://youtu.be/e4X7gBJsZCk[/video]
 
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Varrag

Varrag
FDEV got them BHs pretty well, only thing I'd add is an option to override body exclusion zone safety mechanics, and get killed on event horizon if you really want to :D

edit: but then, I am not sure how would that fit into the lore, I mean, escape pod won't be coming back from there. Perma-death (reads as: "clear save")? Hehe.
 
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Zenith

Zenith
Nutter said:
Not so...

You can fly up until you hit a range limit.

Black holes are safer than Suns and it is impossible to be killed by a black hole by heat.

Proof here [VIDEO]
[video]https://youtu.be/e4X7gBJsZCk[/url]
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Ahhhhctually... you can, if you mess up.
The only time you take on heat is when you try to activate SC. Now if you don't go full throttle to activate the FSD, the heat keeps rising until you get into the danger zone. I found out when I started FSD and switched to debug cam and wondered why I wasn't going anywhere.
Turns out that I hadn't engaged full throttle!
So when I switch back to cockpit view, there's alarms going off, heat is at 115% and rising and I'm taking module damage.

Lesson learnt. Don't engage FSD by a black hole and leave the throttle less than full.
 
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