Where the HELL is the black-hole?

Tue Jun 03, 2003 7:04 pm by Rambly

I'm under the impression that there is a black-hole somewhere in Sirius. I looked under "solar" in my Freelancer directoring and there is a folder that says "blackhole" and insite there is a file that says "Omega13." This made me think that maybe there was a black-hole at Omega-13, but Omega-13 doesn't seem to exist. I went to the first "unknown" system, from Omnicron Gamma, and at first I thought that was the black-hole, but I'm not sure. Is that it? Is that Omega-13? Or is the black-hole somewhere else, maybe in the nomad space that can be reached from Omnicron Alpha? Or maybe somewhere else entirely?

Tue Jun 03, 2003 7:07 pm by LordZach

No black hole, no omega 13. Scrapped stuff.

Tue Jun 03, 2003 7:19 pm by Rambly

But if it exists, can't load it up as a mod or something? I just want to see it.

Tue Jun 03, 2003 7:21 pm by LordZach

Sure people have loaded it up in the middle of new york before, I hear it's quite large. You'd have to search the editing forum on how to go about doing that.

Wed Jun 04, 2003 12:29 am by Sh0cku

sounds.... funky?

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Wed Jun 04, 2003 2:23 am by maswastage|BG

There is no black hole- period.

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Wed Jun 04, 2003 9:03 am by littlebobby3

argree to mas no black hole, but u can get a mob black hole but its lame just a planet looking ball with something that whriles; hhe wont suck u in unfortuetly

Wed Jun 04, 2003 10:55 am by dales

it does exist black holes are just jump holes u can get to sigma 13 through 17

Wed Jun 04, 2003 2:54 pm by DragonBreath

uhm... there is also an other with about the same sh*t (black hole)

Wed Jun 04, 2003 3:38 pm by Nickless V2

I've seen it, it's in the Chugoku system, about 75K north by north-west from Kyoto base. It's got a kind of white light around it. But it doesn't really do anything.
I heard there is also one behind planet Curacao, in the Cortez system, but I haven't found it yet. Will be looking for it...

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Wed Jun 04, 2003 3:42 pm by Shadowman3001

It's probably just the background name...

Wed Jun 04, 2003 3:45 pm by LordZach

Jumpholes are in no way related to black holes except for the word "hole." If they were you'd have a mighty hard time finding them, and escaping.

Wed Jun 04, 2003 3:50 pm by seoken

Alrighty then, no one seems to know much about actual physics so I shall enlighten. You cant see a friggin black hole unless you have equipment that can pick up on gravitational disturbances. A black hole bends the path of light or absorbes it in the cases that the event horizon is exceeded. So no light coming back means the human eye cant see the bloody thing. The only reason you could figure out that it was a black hole is if you happen to see large amounts of debres getting sucked strangely into nothing...
Just my 2cp.

Wed Jun 04, 2003 5:48 pm by NukeIt

You can see it either by the X-rays it gives off or by the material being sucked in.

If you go over Omicron Alpha way, there is a black hole in the background image-it isn't on the map, but that's what a stellar mass black hole would look like with all the trapped material swirling inward.

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Thu Jun 05, 2003 6:32 am by Chandrasekhar Limit

Yep... Gotta differentiate between active and quiescent black holes.

Active black holes are the ones sucking things in. One can see these easily enough. The classic signature is the spinning pinwheel-- A disc of inward-spiraling material beinig sucked in, the speed making that stuff glowing hot and emit x-rays before passing the event horizon.
Quiescent black holes are the ones sitting in a cleared region of space where all the material around it has already been sucked up. These are the ones that can only be detected via gravitational distortion through its microlensing effects on light.

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