Unexplored Neutron Star and Black hole field
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Black holes and neutron stars are made from the same source (massive stars) at the end of their life. The most massive become Black Holes.
Is it roughly at either +1000 or -1000 from the plane? That's an extremely common area for those to be. The neutron fields are well known.
I've been scanning the field now for the last 3 days and at least 21 hours of game play and have not even seen one other star or black hole that has been explored by another Cmdr, I even took a 4k trip back to TIR to hand in some data to make sure I was the first that had found them.
For something well known I thought at least one Cmdr would have left their mark.
For something well known I thought at least one Cmdr would have left their mark.
There are, literally, millions of them in those fields, the same with the white dwarf fields, you are unlikely to bump into other tags even if another explorer has been through that region..
If you activate neutron jump on your route plotter, neutron star will eventually be one of the bodies you'll make the most first discoveries of.
Check out the EDAstro map of neutron stars that have been reported to EDSM. You can clearly see the "neutron fields" in question are two huge discs tens of thousands of LY across, spanning almost the entire galaxy. There's probably a billion neutron stars in each field. You've just discovered one small part of one of them.
The ED galaxy is stratified by age: the closer you get to the galactic plane or "equator", the younger the average age of the stars gets. This is intended to mirror what we see in the real-life galaxy, except the real-life galaxy doesn't have that sharp boundary of the neutron fields, whcih is an artifact of the algorithms used to create the galaxy.
Neutron Stars and Black Holes are the result of large stars dying and exploding as supernovae, and large stars don't last very long on galactic timescales. At neutron-field height, most of the large stars have already exploded, and most of the medium ones have either exploded too, or become Red Giants / White Dwarfs. So it is entirely realistic for the regions far above and below the galactic plane to be much richer in neutron stars, black holes, Red Giants and White Dwarfs.
The ED galaxy is stratified by age: the closer you get to the galactic plane or "equator", the younger the average age of the stars gets. This is intended to mirror what we see in the real-life galaxy, except the real-life galaxy doesn't have that sharp boundary of the neutron fields, whcih is an artifact of the algorithms used to create the galaxy.
Neutron Stars and Black Holes are the result of large stars dying and exploding as supernovae, and large stars don't last very long on galactic timescales. At neutron-field height, most of the large stars have already exploded, and most of the medium ones have either exploded too, or become Red Giants / White Dwarfs. So it is entirely realistic for the regions far above and below the galactic plane to be much richer in neutron stars, black holes, Red Giants and White Dwarfs.
It is now getting a bit tedious scanning the field, I didn't realise that there were literally millions of them. I was hoping to find an earth like planet with a black hole before moving on but no such luck, found plenty of systems with 2 or 3 black holes with neutron stars and water worlds in one system but no earth like yet.
I'll give it a couple of more days then I'll carry on back to the Void where I nearly come a cropper and had to make a hasty retreat back to civilization for repairs. 23,170.60 ly in one day wasn't too bad for me! Thank god for soothing eye drops... oh and in game synthesis!