hey explorers, what is the NEAREST black hole to Sol?

Spiridon · Mar 5, 2015

Been to the largest, but I was scared as hell to come closer. Now I would like to try to test what the black hole does to a ship and how to get away before they change the effects, just don't feel like flying 26k LY to it.

What is the nearest black hole to the populated universe that you've found?

Thank you!

Korenwolf · Mar 5, 2015

Spiridon said:
Been to the largest, but I was scared as hell to come closer. Now I would like to try to test what the black hole does to a ship and how to get away before they change the effects, just don't feel like flying 26k LY to it.

What is the nearest black hole to the populated universe that you've found?

Thank you!

Closest I'm aware of is Maia (Pleiades Nebula), rimwards of human space.

insanephoton · Mar 5, 2015

Beta Hydrae is pretty close but it is fairly small

Skürt Avil · Mar 5, 2015

There's one called 2MASS_someNumbers pretty close AFAIK.
I'll see if I can dig out more info.

Retu81 · Mar 5, 2015

Then there's HIP 63835. It isn't that far away either.

Skürt Avil · Mar 5, 2015

dysonl said:
There's one called 2MASS_someNumbers pretty close AFAIK.
I'll see if I can dig out more info.

2mass 1503+2525 and 2mass J07464256+2000321 A are close, but I've just checked them out and they're Brown Dwarfs. Sorry, my bad.

Duckfather · Mar 5, 2015

There's one in the Eskimo nebula, about 500LY from Sol I think (can't check, at work), but it's only a small one.

Fen Harel · Mar 5, 2015

Mintaka is relatively close. It's one of the stars in Orion's Belt which, for me at least, makes it a very nice location to visit.

Elpapo · Mar 5, 2015

HIP 63835, less than 300 ly have 3 black holes... i think its closest system like that to sol.

If you wanna black holes, go to core. There is so many black holes systems(where you jump directly into one). I stoped scan then when counted 250 scanned holes. But its 16000ly+ travel i afraid. But since youre been already at Sagittarius A i guess you might saw these systems already.

Feldspar · Mar 5, 2015

According the galactic book of records HIP 34707 is only 189.09 LY from Sol. Linky: https://docs.google.com/presentatio...Fnj6j2hc/edit?pli=1#slide=id.g6c9b8a7c3_3_282