Found a ringed White Dwarf

Andrew Gaspurr · Oct 21, 2016

Hi folks,

I just found a ringed White Dwarf. It is orbiting a 50+ solar mass black hole at some 5,500ls. The effect is quite creepy as the rings are not even illuminated. I just love these kinds of rather unusual discoveries.

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Baroness Galaxy · Oct 22, 2016

Congrats !!

Never seen that before. Add it to the GMP !

Zeeman · Oct 22, 2016

That's new...

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mossfoot · Oct 22, 2016

Revisit it when 2.2 goes live!!!

dynamicbob · Oct 22, 2016

I agree once 2.2 goes live it will be well worth visiting, once u hand it in for scan results let us know where ti is to

Aura Lorell · Oct 22, 2016

Oh wow, that is awesome. Thank you so much for sharing. I'd love to see how it looks after 2.2 lands.

Erimus Kamzel · Oct 22, 2016

Nice find, and very rare. Please add it to maps and submit it to Michaels tourism thread

Baroness Galaxy · Oct 22, 2016

Can I also ask what subclass it is ? I've recently documented the subclasses of WD and some of them are very rare, maybe this one is as well ?

http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Stars#White_Dwarf_Spectral_types

Andrew Gaspurr · Oct 22, 2016

I am sorry, the system map provides no additional info and on the GalMap none of the system's additional stellar objects are mentioned. It just says 'Black Hole' without giving the additional M-, L-, T- and D-types. With its age of 13 billion years and the fact that it's not even illuminating its own ring system maybe it can be considered a DC or 'blackbody'.

thundernuns · Oct 22, 2016

50+ solar mass black hole jeez

Muad'Dib [POZ] · Oct 22, 2016

dynamicbob said:
I agree once 2.2 goes live it will be well worth visiting, once u hand it in for scan results let us know where it is to

Yes! please do... I'd love to see this one up close and personnel

Andrew Gaspurr · Oct 22, 2016

I don't know how to put it... I... I just found another... [noob]

This time the black hole 'only' has some 35 solar masses and the White Dwarf (type DA0 VII) is orbited by its own ringed brown dwarf. Creepy stuff!

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Maybe we could initiate a Tourism Resort CG on that water world and name it Flossken Paradise?

CMDR Reaper · Oct 22, 2016

Wow, nice one!

Lingand · Oct 22, 2016

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Looks like a fascinating system. +1

dynamicbob · Oct 23, 2016

A leading candidate for future tourism destinations

Andrew Gaspurr · Oct 27, 2016

Hi folks,

here they are:

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Happy landings!

Caldeon · Nov 21, 2016

I wonder how these look like ingame, especially from inside the rings. Must be an awesome sight

Andrew Gaspurr · Nov 21, 2016

Caldeon said:
I wonder how these look like ingame, especially from inside the rings. Must be an awesome sight

There are ingame screenshots on the first page inside the spoiler tags. Since the systems were dark due to a lacking central star they looked quite eerie. The dwarfs did not illuminate their rings and having the milky way in the background was also not always helpful. All in all it was quite a sight, although there was little to see

Caldeon · Nov 21, 2016

i mean how they look like since 2.2 with updated graphics