The dangers of a Black hole
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Yeah be careful, if one swallows you it clears your save.
More seriously, since 2.2 I don't know. But it was safe before.
Stars can now kill you if you are not careful. 
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Ok but what about black holes?
Black Holes aren't very dangerous. All physics generally attributed to them are void in the game. You can literally get within several kilometers of them out of supercruise and not be affected by them at all. And no, time dilation is also not present. The one exception is Sagittarius A*, which pretty much acts like a star and makes heat build up in your ship.
It's all lemoncheesy in ED.
It's all lemoncheesy in ED.
Go jump into one and find out?
But seriously, Neutrons and white dwarfs are the killers, Black holes still just try and make you very toasty if you fly though them, but that's all.
The drop-out distance for smaller black holes can be dangerously short if you're in a less-nimble ship. Don't know if that's a new thing - I was driving an AspX out in the black before 2.2 dropped so for all I know it's been this way for 'condas since the beginning. Crash drops are hard on the equipment.
Go jump into one and find out?
But seriously, Neutrons and white dwarfs are the killers, Black holes still just try and make you very toasty if you fly though them, but that's all.
with a conda worth 11m and 10 more in exploration? no thanks
edit: anyway thank you all guys
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as long as you approach them slowly and let them drop you from SC (SLOWLY) you have no worries.
You can then play around with them, seeing their lensing effects. Sometimes you can fly right through them. (the higher mass ones are better for this)
When you want to get away:
Put it behind you and move away.
If in regular space boost / boost and boost again. Depending on your ships heat management keep going till you are cool then low wake (enjoy the lensing)
As a Cavet : I think Black Holes should be the most dangerous body in the game. bar none.
Edit to add:
Black holes that are close to stars can be very dangerous. The danger lies not with the BH but with the heat and nasty SC dropping closeness of the main star.
With those you have to be careful. scan em and move on
You can then play around with them, seeing their lensing effects. Sometimes you can fly right through them. (the higher mass ones are better for this)
When you want to get away:
Put it behind you and move away.
If in regular space boost / boost and boost again. Depending on your ships heat management keep going till you are cool then low wake (enjoy the lensing)
As a Cavet : I think Black Holes should be the most dangerous body in the game. bar none.
Edit to add:
Black holes that are close to stars can be very dangerous. The danger lies not with the BH but with the heat and nasty SC dropping closeness of the main star.
With those you have to be careful. scan em and move on
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So what would it be to make a black hole "the most dangerous body" in the game?
If a black hole is dormant and no matter is falling into it it doesn't emitt a lot of radiation. It's gravity is strong, true, but only very close to it. It's not a vacuum cleaner sucking in everything over great distances. FSD technology should clearly be capable of compensating a BH's gravity well outside its event horizon.
On the other hand a black hole influences spacetime in that it starts to bend it according to its mass and gravity. If a frame shift drive truly folds spacetime without the ship getting fryed by incoming blueshifted electromagnetic radiation, a black hole may severly hamper an FSD's performance and maybe pull the ship in as folded spacetime would approach the event horizon and the speculative singularity inside the hole.
Current game mechanics make your ship's heat rise slowly when approaching a BH and then you are dumped out of supercruise. You could argue, the FSD reached its maximum rate of folding spacetime and that it's an emergency exit. Once below SC speeds however, the BH's gravity would start to affect the ship, maybe pretty much like the jets of a neutron star does. But in this case the "jet effect" would be more like an invisible sphere around the hole. When you hit the zone, you have to struggle getting back to SC or your ship gets torn apart due to gravitational strains.
The thing is, the debris and the pilot would be drawn into the singularity of the black hole and thus would be removed from the physics of our universe. So yes, in all consequence, your save would be deleted. If one was to implement this as a consequence...
It's an interesting thing to think of, no doubt...
If a black hole is dormant and no matter is falling into it it doesn't emitt a lot of radiation. It's gravity is strong, true, but only very close to it. It's not a vacuum cleaner sucking in everything over great distances. FSD technology should clearly be capable of compensating a BH's gravity well outside its event horizon.
On the other hand a black hole influences spacetime in that it starts to bend it according to its mass and gravity. If a frame shift drive truly folds spacetime without the ship getting fryed by incoming blueshifted electromagnetic radiation, a black hole may severly hamper an FSD's performance and maybe pull the ship in as folded spacetime would approach the event horizon and the speculative singularity inside the hole.
Current game mechanics make your ship's heat rise slowly when approaching a BH and then you are dumped out of supercruise. You could argue, the FSD reached its maximum rate of folding spacetime and that it's an emergency exit. Once below SC speeds however, the BH's gravity would start to affect the ship, maybe pretty much like the jets of a neutron star does. But in this case the "jet effect" would be more like an invisible sphere around the hole. When you hit the zone, you have to struggle getting back to SC or your ship gets torn apart due to gravitational strains.
The thing is, the debris and the pilot would be drawn into the singularity of the black hole and thus would be removed from the physics of our universe. So yes, in all consequence, your save would be deleted. If one was to implement this as a consequence...
It's an interesting thing to think of, no doubt...
So what would it be to make a black hole "the most dangerous body" in the game?
If a black hole is dormant and no matter is falling into it it doesn't emitt a lot of radiation. It's gravity is strong, true, but only very close to it. It's not a vacuum cleaner sucking in everything over great distances. FSD technology should clearly be capable of compensating a BH's gravity well outside its event horizon.
On the other hand a black hole influences spacetime in that it starts to bend it according to its mass and gravity. If a frame shift drive truly folds spacetime without the ship getting fryed by incoming blueshifted electromagnetic radiation, a black hole may severly hamper an FSD's performance and maybe pull the ship in as folded spacetime would approach the event horizon and the speculative singularity inside the hole.
Current game mechanics make your ship's heat rise slowly when approaching a BH and then you are dumped out of supercruise. You could argue, the FSD reached its maximum rate of folding spacetime and that it's an emergency exit. Once below SC speeds however, the BH's gravity would start to affect the ship, maybe pretty much like the jets of a neutron star does. But in this case the "jet effect" would be more like an invisible sphere around the hole. When you hit the zone, you have to struggle getting back to SC or your ship gets torn apart due to gravitational strains.
The thing is, the debris and the pilot would be drawn into the singularity of the black hole and thus would be removed from the physics of our universe. So yes, in all consequence, your save would be deleted. If one was to implement this as a consequence...
It's an interesting thing to think of, no doubt...
Imagine, masses of accounts deleted