Sciency-stuff question for the cleverer people

[OamodSias]

At HIP 100391 there is this Class A blue supergiant star. When I jumped in it freaked me out. It was small, much smaller than I was expecting. Then I noticed how fast it was spinning, completing a rotation every 15 seconds or so.

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There was another HIP system whose designator I don't recall now, but it had a black hole fairly close to the Class A star. I put the black hole between me and the star and slowly flew toward it. The gravitational lens actually made the star look like it was shrinking as I got closer.

That. Is awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Really looking forward to starting exploring.

 

[ollobrains]

that superclass giant is hurting my eyes still it looks awesome

 

[DCello]

Please note that the Roche limit is only applicable during the formation process and for low density/tensile objects. Two hard bodies can very well orbit inside the Roche limit. There are several examples of this in our own solar system.
(This can happen if bodies form far away from each other and later one catches the other/moves closer due to some other disturbance)

Also note that even low tesile strength objects that come within the Roche limit don't disintegrate immediately. The process can take thousands/millions of years. (E.g. when the Mars moon Phobos will do this it will still survive for quite some time. We don't even know whether it will disintegrate and form a ring or crash...or do a bit of both.)

The system depicted could even be in a 'fly by'-phase. which still might last hundreds of years.

90% true, except for the first sentence. The Roche Limit is the gravitation maxim upon which a body's own gravity pull can no longer keep it together. Matter inside the roche radius of a major body tends to form into a ring, while matter outside *tends* to coalesce. "Tends" as in usually does, but not always.