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Something odd in the Rigel system...
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| apenpaap | Date: Saturday, 07.07.2012, 01:18 | Message # 1 |
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| I was trying to see whether my old astrogation method through the galaxy still worked in the new version, and during this, came through the Rigel system. In reality, Rigel is a triple system, with Rigel A and B seperated by 2200 AU and Rigel B a spectroscopic binary itself. In version 0.96 of SE, however, something very odd happened at Rigel: it's still a triplet, and Rigel A is all good. Rigel B, however, has disappeared! But where, might you ask, are Rigel's to companions, then?
As it turns out, the two companions are of a rather scary nature: Black Holes! Rigel B is now a black hole of 12 Solar masses, circling the barycenter between Rigel A and it at 20 AU:
(Rigel A is just out of sight in the first pic; it's a rather powerful star and makes it hard to see anything else when it's in the image)
But this is not the most bizarre thing: the second black hole is really, really close to Rigel. Only 50 million km away. And Rigel is a big star, with not much gravity at the surface, so it makes me wonder if there'd be matter from Rigel slurped up by this Black Hole...
I occasionally stream at http://www.twitch.tv/magistermystax. Sometimes SE, sometimes other games.
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Saturday, 07.07.2012, 08:32 | Message # 2 |
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| This is not a bug, Rigel is still outside the Roche limit. Its shape should be distorted by the black hole, but this is not supported by SE so far.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Saturday, 07.07.2012, 12:56 | Message # 3 |
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| So the engine put two black holes into a system known to have none... this is exactly the reason why I have StarProcBifurcation set to false 
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| SpaceEngineer | Date: Saturday, 07.07.2012, 15:01 | Message # 4 |
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| Ahh, you about that...
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Saturday, 07.07.2012, 23:21 | Message # 5 |
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| Quote (SpaceEngineer) Ahh, you about that...
I am joking of course! I love that SE can modify catalogs procedurally. It's just my personal preference to use the bare catalog. 
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Edited by HarbingerDawn - Saturday, 07.07.2012, 23:21 |
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