On my journey so far I have visited almost 1500 systems but so far only found 1 black hole. Have I just been unlucky not running across more or are they really that rare?
Are black holes very rare or have I just be unlucky so far?
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Also try the 'AA' systems in a sector
They're more common if you head towards the core, especially amongst the Neutron Fields
Can you expand on that a bit? What do you mean by 'AA' systems?
If you type in <sector name> aa-a in galaxy map (example: Hyades Sector AA-A), it will jump to any black hole, neutron stars, wolf rayets and the like present in that sector. It's also possible to get other hits, anything from O to M class stars, so keep hitting the search button until you've found something.
BTW black holes are not very common outside of the core, but are extremely numerous in the "neutron" fields on the fringes of the galactic core itself; I myself have tagged probably over a 1000 of the things so far.
yeah yeah, those neutron fields farmers [insert play the game in my way comment
] ... i promise, i'll give it a shot one day. the pistol star shoot be close to one of them.
No, it will jump to the heaviest system of the subsector and browse down systems by mass.
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Thanks, I do want to have another go at exploring at some point. I'm planning to head out to the neutron field so I'll give it a try.
They're rare but as other's have stated finding them is a lot about right place, right time. Myself, I found my first three last night. Keep searching you'll find some.
About the mass codes: black holes are the remnants of massive stars and are only found when the primary star was a certain mass.
The mass code (SECTORNAME AB-C MASSCODE(x-)y, e.g. BYAA EUQ EG-Y G12) gives a general indication of the mass of the primary star.
The mass codes run from A (the lightest) to H (the heaviest); black holes are generally only found at mass code E, F, G and H, though in unusual circumstances you might find one at D.
If you search on SECTORNAME AA-A H it will (with some caveats, principally that it doesn't work on sectors along the line from Sol to Sadge) find the most massive stars in the sector and they will generally be wolf-rayets, hot supergiants or sometimes black holes. You're more likely to run into a lower-mass black hole if you're just wandering round though.
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I only have one black hole listed as being a D mass code, but when I've checked it on the galmap just now that system is really an ordinary main sequence star; so it looks like that was a transcription error, and the lowest mass black holes are probably at mass code E. Has anyone got any black holes at code D or lower, I'd love to see if there are.
The mass code (SECTORNAME AB-C MASSCODE(x-)y, e.g. BYAA EUQ EG-Y G12) gives a general indication of the mass of the primary star.
The mass codes run from A (the lightest) to H (the heaviest); black holes are generally only found at mass code E, F, G and H, though in unusual circumstances you might find one at D.
If you search on SECTORNAME AA-A H it will (with some caveats, principally that it doesn't work on sectors along the line from Sol to Sadge) find the most massive stars in the sector and they will generally be wolf-rayets, hot supergiants or sometimes black holes. You're more likely to run into a lower-mass black hole if you're just wandering round though.
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I only have one black hole listed as being a D mass code, but when I've checked it on the galmap just now that system is really an ordinary main sequence star; so it looks like that was a transcription error, and the lowest mass black holes are probably at mass code E. Has anyone got any black holes at code D or lower, I'd love to see if there are.
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Nope, never seen one....
It's full of stars!
OP, if you want to see one there's some very close to the bubble. HIP 63835 has 3 black holes apparently and is just [FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]241LY from Achenar. I must go there myself at some point. Black holes inside nebula are nice because they make all the nebula colours go swirly There's a nebula one 2000LY out from the bubble that I found but I forget the name of the nebula.. sorry.[/FONT]
There's a nebula one 2000LY out from the bubble that I found but I forget the name of the nebula.. sorry.[/FONT]
OP, if you want to see one there's some very close to the bubble. HIP 63835 has 3 black holes apparently and is just 241LY from Achenar. I must go there myself at some point. Black holes inside nebula are nice because they make all the nebula colours go swirly
the ones i found away from the core were not that impressive, the ones closer to the core are better as you have stars in the background to actually "see" the black hole, otherwise they just look like they're not there apart from an orange circle around it when you have it selected.
Discovered a second one [up]
You need to get the band of the galaxy behind the black hole and then it'll wrap round it and look a bit better than an orange reticule...
(I'm sure I have more impressive shots than that but I'm not on my gaming PC and I've apparently not uploaded the others to imgur)
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