Black hole finding?

Deepfriedmal

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I have done a search but have not found exactly what I am after, so, I am currently 4.5kly out and have found a couple of black holes so far but already claimed. My current goal is to find my own black hole - but is there an easy way?
I would appreciate and hints and tips that you would like to share.

Thanks in advance commanders

Mal
 

Jastebro

Jastebro
Go to the neutron star fields, some 12-15k out towards the core (and a few k down?) Every 100 or so non-sequence star you will see, will be a black hole.
 

newman1702

newman1702
Easiest way is to head to the neutron fields (located on the fringes of the galactic core). Go to your galaxy map and check out the outer areas of the galactic core, with filters set so only non-sequence stars show. When you find vast fields of gray dots, that's the neutron fields. You can easily find thousands of unclaimed black holes in those areas.
 

Traveller_GG

Traveller_GG
Or do what I did and accidentally click on an area of the galaxy 16,000ly away and find a huge cluster of them. It might work again.

This really did happen, it was the start of my vague wandering tour to BP the first time.
 

Ziggy Stardust

Ziggy Stardust
Once you're in the neutron/black hole fields, switch to realistic view in the starmap. Those black little spheres really stand out.
 

Boogyman

B
there is a sequential naming pattern to the procedural systems. black hole systems tend to be named like:
<base name> aa-a h<sequence number>

not all such systems are black holes, and not all black holes are in these sequences, but these particular sequences have a relatively high concentration of black holes.

once you find a match, omit the <sequence number> bit an paste the rest into the galmap search. it'll find the first in the sequence, and if you just keep hitting the search button, it'll find the next all the way to the end of the sequence.

record each system name you want to visit in a spreadsheet with coordinates, and calculate distances from your current position to get an efficient route.
 

Jackie Silver

Jackie Silver
Boogyman said:
there is a sequential naming pattern to the procedural systems. black hole systems tend to be named like:
<base name> aa-a h<sequence number>

not all such systems are black holes, and not all black holes are in these sequences, but these particular sequences have a relatively high concentration of black holes.
Click to expand...

To expand on this a little more - in most cases* the last letter (the "mass code") in the system name is a guide to the mass of the primary star in the system when it is (or was) on the main sequence, from A (lowest mass) to H (highest mass.) The other letters and the numbers give the position of the system within its sector (see the "decoding Universal Cartographics" thread in my sig for the thrilling full details ^^ ). All the highest mass systems are bundled together as SECTORNAME AA-A H, which basically means "it's huge, and it's somewhere in SECTORNAME" - for stars of G and lower mass code there are more options for the other letters which narrow the position down more.

Black holes only form from the largest stars and so generally will only be found in systems of mass code H and G. The black hole has lower mass than the star it came from, so while you'll see H systems with primary stars up to ~120 solar masses you won't see black holes that massive in an H system.

*not near Sol, or the line from Sol to Sgr A*. You need to go a couple of Kylies to the side.
 
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