Safe distance from a black hole

Jarsil

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I know this may be a stupid question, but today I found my first black hole (not a first discovery, but my first one), Maia B, and I was wondering how close I could get to take pictures before being "sucked in" by the gravitational forces of a black hole.

How close one can arrive to a black hole without being tore apart by the gravity?
 

Zieman

Zieman
Jarsil said:
I know this may be a stupid question, but today I found my first black hole (not a first discovery, but my first one), Maia B, and I was wondering how close I could get to take pictures before being "sucked in" by the gravitational forces of a black hole.

How close one can arrive to a black hole without being tore apart by the gravity?
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You can bounce on its 'body exclusion zone' without any risk.

I wish there was some danger and said gravitational forces involved, but there are non. In game explanation could be that the FSD negates/dampens the forces. :eek:

EDIT: some experiments here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=170820
 
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Traveller_GG

Traveller_GG
Black holes are actually 'safer' than neutron stars in that they will not overheat your ship when you stray too close. You'll just drop out of SC and possibly have a strange desire for bolognase.
 
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ArkSeaJumper

ArkSeaJumper
I got knocked out of FS on arrival 2015-08-30_00003.jpg in black hole main system today..


See even the photo got messed up
 
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Surly_Badger

Surly_Badger
This is Elite: Not Very Dangerous At All. You can fly right at a black hole and as long as you're not going too fast, you're fine; you'll drop out of supercruise and have to pick a jump-point then dump a heat sink when you spool up your FSD. Otherwise, you're more likely to injure yourself cutting your finger on a beer can than flying straight into a black hole. This game is fun, but exploring is way too tolerant of error. I'd be surprised if anyone has managed to blow up a ship thanks to a black hole, whereas tons of CMDRs have lost ships because of loitering while docking. There's something a bit off with a universe where nipping into station for a Starbucks is more dangerous than flying straight at a black hole.
 
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InMemoriamSirocco

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InMemoriamSirocco
You can fly close until the distance counter changes from megameters to kilometers, then throttle down to zero and approach with 30km/s until you get emergency dropped out of supercruise. Then you can approach with full boost until you hit the body exclusion zone.

You can get very close indeed:

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And yes, this particular black hole should have an accretiation disc sucking in the nearby blue star, but gravitational forces are not yet implemented in the game... sadly :-(
 
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Soulstain

Soulstain
Surly_Badger said:
This is Elite: Not Very Dangerous At All. You can fly right at a black hole and as long as you're not going too fast, you're fine; you'll drop out of supercruise and have to pick a jump-point then dump a heat sink when you spool up your FSD. Otherwise, you're more likely to injure yourself cutting your finger on a beer can than flying straight into a black hole. This game is fun, but exploring is way too tolerant of error. I'd be surprised if anyone has managed to blow up a ship thanks to a black hole, whereas tons of CMDRs have lost ships because of loitering while docking. There's something a bit off with a universe where nipping into station for a Starbucks is more dangerous than flying straight at a black hole.
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This is fairly new though right Surly? It wasn't like this originally. You could cease to exist at one time.
 

Surly_Badger

Surly_Badger
Soulstain said:
This is fairly new though right Surly? It wasn't like this originally. You could cease to exist at one time.
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I don't know. I've only recently felt silly enough to try to fly into a black hole. I used to avoid testing it because I want to play a realistic game.

Perhaps some crybaby flew into a black hole and took some damage and waah waah waah'd on the forums until FD changed it. I dunno.

Edit: I just tried it. No damage at all. I FSD'd away from it and my heat never went above 50%. Elite: Easy.
 
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InMemoriamSirocco

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InMemoriamSirocco
Surly_Badger said:
I don't know. I've only recently felt silly enough to try to fly into a black hole. I used to avoid testing it because I want to play a realistic game.

Perhaps some crybaby flew into a black hole and took some damage and waah waah waah'd on the forums until FD changed it. I dunno.

Edit: I just tried it. No damage at all. I FSD'd away from it and my heat never went above 50%. Elite: Easy.
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Imagine the outcry and uproar in the forums when they finally implement gravitational forces and the first "deaths by black hole" occur out in the black! :D
 

Jarsil

J
Surly_Badger said:
I don't know. I've only recently felt silly enough to try to fly into a black hole. I used to avoid testing it because I want to play a realistic game.

Perhaps some crybaby flew into a black hole and took some damage and waah waah waah'd on the forums until FD changed it. I dunno.

Edit: I just tried it. No damage at all. I FSD'd away from it and my heat never went above 50%. Elite: Easy.
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Doh!

An excellent screenshot chance wasted then. I didn't dare approaching the black hole because I was convinced I could get myself killed.

Ok, next one will be scanned, radiographed, MRIed, ecc. ecc. :D
 

Morbad

Morbad
InMemoriamSirocco said:
Imagine the outcry and uproar in the forums when they finally implement gravitational forces and the first "deaths by black hole" occur out in the black! :D
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They should implement radiation damage, have your pilot vomit all over the inside of his/her helmet and black out if approaching the wrong things from the wrong vectors without upgraded armor or powerful shields.
 

Jericho Josh

Jericho Josh
Am I the only one who has an overriding fear of black holes? I mean, I am litterally afraid of approaching them too fast or closely... glad to hear that the exclusion zone protects you, but there is still something to it to me... this might take a little to get over, lol.
 

Jarsil

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Jericho Josh said:
Am I the only one who has an overriding fear of black holes? I mean, I am litterally afraid of approaching them too fast or closely... glad to hear that the exclusion zone protects you, but there is still something to it to me... this might take a little to get over, lol.
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Nope, you are not the only one... I started this thread for the very same reason, I avoided to get close to a black hole because I was totally afraid to get too close and be destroyed...
 
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