what do black holes look like on the galaxy map?
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Uhhh...black?
Hehe, just kidding, though really, in realistic view they are black.
If the main star in a system is a black hole the system will be listed as a black hole system. To find these switch your galaxy view to Star Type. Turn off all the other star types except for non-sequence stars. This category includes neutron stars and black holes....now that the non-sequence stars are easily spotted...target one and do one of two things. The info panel will tell you what kind of stars are in the system, or you can switch back to realistic view and the star will appear black instead of white when it is a black hole.
Also, there are many black holes that are not the main star in a system. These can only be found by accident or if you look at the info panel for every system you see on the gal map.
Hope that helps!
Hehe, just kidding, though really, in realistic view they are black.
If the main star in a system is a black hole the system will be listed as a black hole system. To find these switch your galaxy view to Star Type. Turn off all the other star types except for non-sequence stars. This category includes neutron stars and black holes....now that the non-sequence stars are easily spotted...target one and do one of two things. The info panel will tell you what kind of stars are in the system, or you can switch back to realistic view and the star will appear black instead of white when it is a black hole.
Also, there are many black holes that are not the main star in a system. These can only be found by accident or if you look at the info panel for every system you see on the gal map.
Hope that helps!
I thought they were blue or purple on the galaxy map?
Ugh.. thought I found a few within 100 lys of me.
How do I filter on non-sequence stars? I don't see that option in my map :-(
On the tab to right of Navigation when the galmap is open...I forget what is called and am away from my PC
Under that, switch from Realistic
Below that, there is a drop down that lets you select applying colors for allegiance, government, cartographics and star type...select star type
non-sequence is the first option...leave that enabled and turn all others off.
Assuming protostars are T-Tauri stars, no. They're worth about the same as a regular star, and in fact they're so similar in appearance in a lot of cases that I've taken hull damage because I typically judge distance by fuel scooping, and since you can't scoop from them I end up too close and have to emergency stop.
There are a few black holes associated with blue white stars around the Pelican nebula, I think HR 7767 is one.
Yeah. proto stars = t- tauri stars. I've hit dozens of them... nothing interesting.
The map only gives you the main star of that system, out around the human occupied area I've yet to see a system with the black hole as primary. The blue and purple stars are O and B stars, which are most likely to have a black hole companion.
In the core there areblack hole primary stars, on realistic mode I think they don't appear as anything, just the flag giving you the location.
In the core there areblack hole primary stars, on realistic mode I think they don't appear as anything, just the flag giving you the location.
black holes appear on the system map as small or large black puddles on the axis grid (white line) connecting planets. scan and they will pop up in system map I do believe
Also bear in mind that they only show in the galmap if they are the system primary star. The vast majority of them aren't.
Best bet to finding black holes are clusters of blue-white stars.
You can find them around Thor's Eye, around Lagoon Nebula, around Omega Nebula, in NGC 7822, etc these are just a few blue-white star clusters relatively near the bubble, all with black holes.
Closest black hole to the bubble's borders is P Puppis.
Best bet to finding black holes are clusters of blue-white stars.
You can find them around Thor's Eye, around Lagoon Nebula, around Omega Nebula, in NGC 7822, etc these are just a few blue-white star clusters relatively near the bubble, all with black holes.
Closest black hole to the bubble's borders is P Puppis.
also keep in mind that although (FD) has done an admiral job of creating a realistic universe for us to play in, they simply lacked the importance of allowing black holes to pull you closer to the event horizon preventing escape if you get to close. Major let down in my opinion. They are simply artwork now instead of an extreme danger if approached wrong, you can simply faceplant black holes now and not take any damage or be prevented from escaping. DEVS- "Let's make everything realistic, but leave out the most important danger of the universe and make them harmless" FRONTIER you need to recalculate this thought process and fix the issue!!
It this bit about O and B type stars an actual thing or just small number statistics. There's no scientific reason for it so I'm curious if FDEV made it more likely or somebody spotted a few and decided it was a pattern.
Nearly all black holes I ever saw in this game were companions to OB stars, most of them inside OB clusters which usually have black holes and neutron stars.
Not entirely sure if there's a scientific explanation for that, but OBA clusters are usually regions called "stellar nurseries", where new stars are being formed. And most of new stars are made with leftover stellar "debris" of collapsed / exploded stars, which are exactly how black holes are first formed. So it might be actually scientifically accurate (or "scientifically probable").
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For the same reason self-driving cars don't crash into walls - programmers aren't stupid, and programmers wrote your flight software.
Well if you consider that light just barely cannot escape black holes, then you can assume that if you travel at several times the speed of light then it should be possible. And if you go further and use the simple equation of "E=mc^2" you should realize that it should be impossible to go faster than light "not realistic" .
So if you go faster than light which could raise your mass to infinity. It is far more realistic to assume that with the given technology you should be able to escape a black hole.