Sagittarius A*'s mass

[roeiboot4]

Hi all,

As an astrophysicist playing ED, I appreciate very much the fact that all astronomical bodies have plausible masses. For example G type stars indeed will all have a mass of around 1 solar mass (the sun is a G2V, and so that makes sense). However yesterday, I (finally!) managed to get to Sgr A*, and found that its mass was 516608.00 solar masses. This is, unconditionally, wrong. Sgr A*'s mass is more like 4 million solar masses.
What gives? How is the games Sgr A* calculated/set? I understand that its mass was modified because of the gigantic exploration payout, but wouldn't it be better to just make an exception for the exploration bonus of Sgr A*. There is, after all, only one super massive black hole in the galaxy.

Thanks for considering this
Matthias

 

[S~P]

I think Physics went out the window in development with ED. So I wouldn't put to much into the facts as it's just a game at the end of the day.

 

[Nasc]

I went to Sag A thinking about mass. They didn't even speak Latin.

 

[Orvidius]

I know there are many cases of ED's galaxy details being locked in before new astronomical measurements became available, but I'm pretty sure there were better estimates of Sgr A*'s mass available prior to that. So who know what happened there.

Whether they do it as a payout override, or a visual override of the mass displayed, you would think an exception wouldn't too hard to add.

shrugs

 

[Juniper]

Hi all,

As an astrophysicist playing ED, I appreciate very much the fact that all astronomical bodies have plausible masses. For example G type stars indeed will all have a mass of around 1 solar mass (the sun is a G2V, and so that makes sense). However yesterday, I (finally!) managed to get to Sgr A*, and found that its mass was 516608.00 solar masses. This is, unconditionally, wrong. Sgr A*'s mass is more like 4 million solar masses.
What gives? How is the games Sgr A* calculated/set? I understand that its mass was modified because of the gigantic exploration payout, but wouldn't it be better to just make an exception for the exploration bonus of Sgr A*. There is, after all, only one super massive black hole in the galaxy.

Thanks for considering this
Matthias

They found that without the addition of Dark Matter and Dark Energy to the galaxy simulation, a 4million solar mass black hole would eventually eat everything.

Actually, that's totally nonsense. I just made that up.