HR 6819 maybe needs an in-game update? Nearest known black hole revealed.

[duckofdeath]

Earthling scientists without hyper space technology has apparently found a black hole in the centre of HR 6819, with the listed Be type star orbiting it at a 40 day cycle.
Would it be possible to patch the galaxy to reflect this?

News article on EarthNet's BBC site (still getting regular updates):

'Nearest black hole to Earth discovered'

An unseen object is found to be lurking in a double-star system a mere 1,000 light-years from Earth.

www.bbc.com

 

[Factabulous]

Nah, dem scientists will probably do a Fomalhaut on us and disappear it in a few years

Mysterious 'disappearing' exoplanet was just a big cloud of asteroid trash, study suggests

The alleged exoplanet was bright and vivid in 2004, then totally vanished by 2014.

www.space.com

 

[[Cancelled Consoleer] boppa_]

Stellar Forge predicted Trappist 1 , right? I wonder if there's a black hole nearby to HR 6819 in-game.

 

[duckofdeath]

They changed Trappist-1 to look like what those Earth scientists decided it's got to look like. Originally Trappist-1 was an empty binary star system, I think.

 

[[Cancelled Consoleer] boppa_]

The way Stellar Forge works is to use ‘available mass’ from which to generate systems – and because of this unaccounted mass, Stellar Forge has created a system with a Brown Dwarf in very nearly the same place – 39 light years away – this is only a little smaller than an M8 – and it even has seven terrestrial worlds around it – Core Sys Sector XU-P A5-0.

David Braben forum post

 

[Frankymole]

Aka QV Tel, CD−56°7256, FK5 1474, GC 24906, HD 167128, HIP 89605, HR 6819, SAO 245369.

Elite has it in totally the wrong place. Should be around -72.236 / -626.117 / -924.594, but the Gal map has it at 263 / -237.875 / 672.5, much too close to Sol. Only 760 light years instead of 1,120 ± 70 light years as it is in reality judging by its parallax.

 

[killminster]

Good call, I went out there to see whats in the system and it's just a single solitary class B star. Very boring, definitely needs updating, and on past form there may be a fair chance it makes it into the game.