Black holes - how close can you get?

[PanPiper.]

Detailed Scaning range is 5 ls from my experiences from many BH.
Supercruise dropout zone varies with the stellar mass , as does the exclusion zone. Small ones can get very close to. Larger ones you will find out but no danger from death.
If you get too close and hit exclusion zone, dont try jump out , grab a few km first before supercruising to escape vector.

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

I went to 26 km and was dropped by sc without dmg since i was at minimal speed. On normal cruise i couldn't get closer than 26km and got heat at 56% and not raising. I stayed there for 15 minutes or more to take screenies and had not seen any danger.

 

[Soulstain]

25.7 kms and throttle at full. I can't get any closer and no increased heat. Not sure if I'm at a bad angle to it. Not very impressive looking at HR1185.

 

[Alex Traut]

It depends on the size of the black hole, I'm sure.

It does.

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Yes, that is 5 meters.

 

[Soulstain]

Now that's close! Nice one.

 

[Zieman]

It does.

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http://ayashi.net./elite/elite-bh5m.png

Yes, that is 5 meters.

That must be as light as (stellar remnant) black hole can be - the Schwarzschild radius for 1 solar mass would ba a tad under 3 km.

 

[Cdr Voorheez]

Black holes are odd, and I think it depends on the size of the BH. I got 24km close to a 2 stellar mass one earlier with no adverse effects at all, took a SS and buggered off.
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Neutron stars however are nasty blighters, I dropped too close earlier (2ls) and got properly fried. First damage I have taken so far. I now wait for my discovery scanner to start clicking away (at 5ls usually) and press on my throttle-zero button I now have mapped to my controller for such nasty situations.

 

[Alex Traut]

That must be as light as (stellar remnant) black hole can be - the Schwarzschild radius for 1 solar mass would ba a tad under 3 km.

I actively tried to hit the exclusion zone for this one, and couldn't. Every time I got closer than 5 meters, I would pass it. I'm pretty sure it's so small that the game considers it a point source.

 

[Zieman]

I actively tried to hit the exclusion zone for this one, and couldn't. Every time I got closer than 5 meters, I would pass it. I'm pretty sure it's so small that the game considers it a point source.

Ouch, I thought you were 5 kilometers away...

 

[dan_b]

5m - that's incredible, well done CMDR!

 

[PanicButton]

5m - so close you can almost see the bookcases beyond the black hole

 

[Alex Traut]

That must be as light as (stellar remnant) black hole can be - the Schwarzschild radius for 1 solar mass would ba a tad under 3 km.

I don't remember the listed stats, but I ran the numbers, and in order to have a Schwarzchild radius of <5m, a BH would have to have a mass of no more than about 3.366e27 kg--or about 1.77 times the mass of Jupiter. Almost certainly not a stellar remnant, which does raise the question of how such a BH might come to be in the first place.

 

[Iridium Nova]

I don't remember the listed stats, but I ran the numbers, and in order to have a Schwarzchild radius of <5m, a BH would have to have a mass of no more than about 3.366e27 kg--or about 1.77 times the mass of Jupiter. Almost certainly not a stellar remnant, which does raise the question of how such a BH might come to be in the first place.

If I managed to get that close to a black hole, I might be tempted to open my cargo scoop and try to scoop it up. Imagine what you could sell that commodity for!

 

[Traveller_GG]

If I managed to get that close to a black hole, I might be tempted to open my cargo scoop and try to scoop it up. Imagine what you could sell that commodity for!

I think you'd find the bottom would fall out of the market if you tried....

 

[newman1702]

Adding the mass of the black hole to your ship might slightly affect your jump range to a nice round number

 

[Zieman]

I don't remember the listed stats, but I ran the numbers, and in order to have a Schwarzchild radius of <5m, a BH would have to have a mass of no more than about 3.366e27 kg--or about 1.77 times the mass of Jupiter. Almost certainly not a stellar remnant, which does raise the question of how such a BH might come to be in the first place.

Yeah, I 1st misread the distance to be 5 km

 

[Iridium Nova]

Adding the mass of the black hole to your ship might slightly affect your jump range to a nice round number

How does time dilation affect hyperspace? What happens if you try to hyperspace the source of a time dilation effect? Either you'd have no jump range at all or it'd be nearly infinite. Hey maybe this is the first component to building the Galactic Hyperdrive...

 

[Elpapo]

My record.

 

[Mysturji]

It depends on the mass of the BH (and the temperature for big ones like Sag A*). I forget how close I've got, but I first got confirmation from a Dev in another thread that the "body exclusion zone" also applied to Black holes before I tried it.
I have been within a few KMs (< 1,000, maybe < 100. I have screenshots at home) from a small one, and hit the exclusion zone.
Sag A* is very hot and I took heat damage and turned around before I got dropped out of SC.

The most important thing is to approach it SLOWLY. Stay under 1,000 mps or you'll take damage when you drop out of SC. Enjoy the view: It's scarily cool! Then, put the BH directly behind you (use your compass), hit SC and throttle to 0 and watch the lightshow as you escape the gravitational lens. It's seriously freaky!

 

[Jobabor]

I have flown right through them. Very disorienting.