Black holes??????

[Rutabaga22]

I wonder if blackholes will be a thing in KSP 2. If they are, could we have a solar system with a black hole consuming the star??? Black hole planets??????? An accretion disc that requires heat and radiation protection???????

[Ryaja]

Hope so, if not maybe in a dlc or mods.

[shdwlrd]

As far as we know, nothing has been confirmed. So maybe yes or maybe no.

[intelliCom]

Feels like something that would end up as a mod, like they mentioned for solar sails.

[Bej Kerman]

On 5/24/2022 at 1:17 AM, Rutabaga22 said:

An accretion disc that requires heat and radiation protection?

No protection would let you survive going inside Kerbol, let alone an accretion disk.

[whatsEJstandfor]

That makes me wonder if a black hole is, like, the final boss star system, and if there's a bespoke solution created for it to simulate GR effects. Oh man, this rampant and ungrounded speculation made me excited lmao

[Bej Kerman]

On 5/27/2022 at 4:17 PM, whatsEJstandfor said:

That makes me wonder if a black hole is, like, the final boss star system, and if there's a bespoke solution created for it to simulate GR effects. Oh man, this rampant and ungrounded speculation made me excited lmao

A stellar mass black hole will only look like a neutron star until you're well beyond the point a Kerbal could go without being spaghettified. 

A supermassive black hole, you could approach the event horizon before being spaghettified. But you would never be able to go anywhere near the black hole due to intense radiation.

[Laxez]

for the moment I think it is quite infeasible. I know Star Trek may not be the most scientifically accurate series, but follow my reasoning...

the maximum speed reached in star trek is curvature 9.9999 or almost 200 times the speed of light, we are talking about 6x10 ^ 10 km / s x 200, the black hole of the milky way is 6260 light years,
doing a calculation we obtain that we are at 5.92241727583571000000E + 016 km from the milky way black hole, my calculator can't calculate how long it takes to get there at warp 9.9999, so how should it be possible in ksp2 to get there with a spaceship that can barely take you to another planetary system in half a century, whereas there will be no warp engines?

in star trek they have practically never gone beyond the middle of the milky way (with exceptions not due to science).

I also remember that although I am using the solar system as a reference, the event horizon of a black hole extends far beyond its actual size, making proximity to other celestial bodies almost impossible.

 

having said that it would still be a lot cool to get close to a black hole, but it is a celestial entity we still know too little about, until 2019 black holes were just a theory.

Edited June 20, 2022 by Laxez
error correction

[Bej Kerman]

4 hours ago, Laxez said:

the maximum speed reached in star trek is curvature 9.9999 or almost 200 times the speed of light, we are talking about 6x10 ^ 10 km / s x 200, the black hole of the milky way is 6260 light years,
doing a calculation we obtain that we are at 5.92241727583571000000E + 016 km from the milky way black hole, my calculator can't calculate how long it takes to get there at warp 9.9999, so how should it be possible in ksp2 to get there with a spaceship that can barely take you to another planetary system in half a century, whereas there will be no warp engines?

That's the time it'd take to reach Sagittarius A*. There are closer black holes though.