Black Holes

posted on April 29th, 2009, 11:47 pm

ok ill give you that one. What do you think quasars would look like?

posted on April 29th, 2009, 11:49 pm

An "active" supermassive black hole   :thumbsup:


Or did I misunderstand?

posted on April 30th, 2009, 12:02 am

ok i must be thinking fuzzily here because i was thinking of stars that emit bursts of gamma rays at timed intervals.

posted on April 30th, 2009, 12:54 am

Are you perhaps thinking of pulsars? They aren't emitting bursts though; it's one continuous stream (from each pole) but the pulsar is rotating so that the intervals are extremely regular (so precise, in fact, that they make the best time-keeping devices in the universe ... so far  )

posted on April 30th, 2009, 1:42 am

Perhaps thats what im thinking of... it would be cool to see something like that in FO!

posted on April 30th, 2009, 1:53 am

Yup: probably would irradiate all your ships, haha

posted on May 14th, 2009, 8:21 am

Thought i would post this in this threadl it seems a lot nicer than that other one!
http://armada2.filefront.com/file/Black_Hole;99650

posted on May 14th, 2009, 9:52 am

This one is really cool!

The only thing I'd like to have is, that the disk expands, when it get's something to eat, and shrinks after some time of no supply, until theres nothing but a black spot left.

This could probably be obtained by two sods. This one with the ability of the wormholes to shring and exmand, and a Black sphere in the middle, which never changes at all.

The question is how to trigger that opening, since there is nothing activly flying in?

posted on May 14th, 2009, 4:53 pm

Personally, I've always loved those little black holes from Stock. Position a couple of Steamrunners near one, and wait. Don't knock it till you've tried it.

posted on May 14th, 2009, 4:58 pm

yeah. i remember those black holes.

this time however, we have the sov's special ability. It'll end up taking out whole fleets... yikes... talk about a super weapon. lol 

posted on May 14th, 2009, 5:06 pm

Actually, it looks just like the picture I posted earlier in this thread.

posted on May 14th, 2009, 5:38 pm

I remember taking down huge fleets of Tactical Cubes with just a couple Steamies. Imagine the carnage with a fleet of Sovs!

posted on June 3rd, 2009, 5:05 pm

I'm pretty sure that black holes go towards this theory...

Black holes are a spacial anomaly that acts as a hole in the Space Time continuum constantly gravitatiing all nearby matter and energy. The gravitated matter gets torn apart to its smaller componetns of protons, neutrons and electrons; as these are absorbed into the hole they get super compressed to almost an indefinite degree. With the highly compressed matter the mass continues to increase, and the gravity stregnth with it. With the intense gravity all light around the hole is bent or distorted often giving the illusion of a sphere. But in really the only dimension it really has is depth. But this dimension is in fact infinite, so there are no 'definite' dimensions of this anomaly.

So there are no real dimensions of a black hole, it is basically a 'void'.  So does it really matter if is a disk or a sphere? 

posted on June 3rd, 2009, 5:47 pm

Black holes definitely have dimensions. They have a mass and a radius for one thing 

However, because beyond the event horizon we can't tell what's happening, dimensions within a singularity are meaningless. From our perspective, looking in, they definitely have real-universe effects.

posted on June 3rd, 2009, 6:54 pm

They have dimensions just like galaxys.  And we aren't sure how extensive the size of the event horizon is, just like earths exo sphere.  We aren't sure if it has a definitive end in our solar system, or if all gravitational pulls Slowly dissipating over a very large didtance.