Black Holes
09 Dec 2015Lothal Vanderheim
Civilization wears on you.After several weeks back home, I already long for the deep dark night of the eternal void. I feel it's time for exploration!
By just talking to other explorers, I slowly assembled a list of black holes near the bubble. The list is probably still not complete, but eh. Good enough. I still want to do some things here in the bubble, so it's probably better if I stay closer then I normally would.
Of course, close is relative. Two of the systems with black holes in it are a couple thousand light years from Lave, for example.
Right now, I've already explored some of the closer ones, like the three in HIP 63835 or the one in Maia. HIP 34707 was another star system with a black hole. One so small I couldn't even find it visually, my ship's computer took over and avoided the black hole long before I could get close enough to observe any effects on space/time.
The others were massive enough to twist space around like mad, though. I just wish I could find a way to override the safeguards in my computer, I really want to get closer and this stupid software is really overly cautious sometimes.
Anyway, if you don't fear space and time twisting around you, black holes are probably less interesting to you then wildly spinning suns like R Coronae Astrini A.
Go take a look, it's not that far.