Talk:Black hole

Useless blackholes
CVN-39963b leads to TRG-76138t, with nothing in reach on the other side (with an Inter-stellar drive level 5)

SignpostMarv 03:51, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

EDI-14141t (58.09,2101.57) leads to RBP-20376z (surrounded by Grox territory), ditto

SignpostMarv 06:47, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Black Holes?
I was under the belief that they are wormholes not black holes. And that the thing in the centre is a quasar, not a supermassive black hole. Though please correct me if I'm wrong.
 * I'm pretty sure the game calls them wormholes, too. I was surprised by the article name here. --Sdfisher 23:15, 30 December 2008 (UTC)


 * As far as i'm concerned a black hole and a wormhole are two different things, I have a limited knowledge of these matters, probably the same as most people who aren't physicists (any physicists reading please feel free to correct and enlighten me. I only have wikipedia for reference.) To me a black hole is just something that devours everything that gets close to it, a wormhole is like a tunnel through spacetime, hypothetically allowing you to navigate through one end and pop up in some unknown part of space. It seems strange that we have the wormhole key and they're called black holes in game.Ҵїҫэӌ Ҭӈә Ѕҥїʐʐɻє 21:43, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

I am an amature physacist (by that I mean that I get more of my info from discovery channel and the science channel than from books) and you hit the nail on the head. I was having the same thoughts. While a black hole could be used for fast space travel, you better pray that there is nothing in your way, as it really just flings you short of the speed of light, as aposed to ripping a hole in space and time. 12.32.58.75 02:36, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

Technically, they're both black holes and wormholes. If I'm interpretting the theory correctly, blackholes contain wormholes (Einstein-Rosenthal Bridges) inside them, though of course as no one has gone inside a black hole and everything we know about their interior after the Event Horizon is conjecture, this is just a theory. Presumably the species in Spore was capable of keeping their ship undamaged by the forces of the Black Hole until it entered, whereupon it would activate a device that would open the wormhole inside the black hole. --Fegaxeyl 20:56, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

The Galactic Core is not a quasar
Most galaxies have a hypothetical supermassive black hole including the Milky Way galaxy. They have much more mass than a typical stellar mass black hole. A quasar (quasi-stellar radio source) is an extremely powerfull and distant active galactic nucleus. They give off huge amounts of radio emissions. Quasars only exist in very active galaxies and they are the accretion disk surrounding the black hole. Wormulon 11:03, 15 December 2008 (UTC)


 * OK. I just remember hearing it somewhere. As for the standard black holes, I went in game and saw that they are, though I'll always think of them as wormholes. It's just semantics really. They act like wormholes, so meh.


 * Wormulon: That is not correct, a quasar is a supermassive black hole that is currently "feeding" of off stellar gas and other interstellar medium. The Accretion disk is called the Accretion disk.  Our own Galaxy does not have a humongous quasar at this point, and also not one giving off massive amounts of Gamma rays and X-rays. Thanks, TimeMaster Talk Main Contribs 22:22, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Some Blackholes
CVN-498Lx Angle-226.58 Distance-7,628.65 (pc)

GRB-50498d Angle-230.61 Distance-7,524.37 (pc) HerbisoarEmpire 14:29, 16 February 2009 (UTC)HerbisoarEmpire


 * Ok I know the locations stay the same but don't the names change from game to game? Anyway in one of my games i've renamed a few wormholes that are important to my empire, just to make it easier to find them. They're a vital link between me and the Grox.Ҵїҫэӌ Ҭӈә Ѕҥїʐʐɻє 22:26, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

More Black Holes at Center of Galaxy
I am just now going through near center of the galaxy, and the num ber of black holes seems to increase and they get closer together. Has Anyone else noticed this? HerbisoarEmpire 18:51, 16 February 2009 (UTC)HerbiosarEmpire

Yes I have noticed this but most of them don't lead anywhere because of the gravity wells and star clusters. Wormulon 20:05, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Voices
I was by a wormhole and I didn't have the wormhole key yet,and I was orbiting there and suddenly this Grox sounding voice roars two words and then stops.I was pretty surprised,and I left and came back again and the voice came once more.I wasn't sure whether it was supposed some sort of Grox radio transmission being warped into the wormhole or if it was just a sound made by the wormhole.Anyway,it sounded sorta scary.(Furby98 20:52, 24 February 2009 (UTC))


 * Strange. Also, can you use spaces after punctuation,and not write like this,please?Thank-you.  Anyway, that's cool, and a nice fact to know.  I've never heard it, though. Thanks, TimeMaster Talk Main Contribs 21:11, 7 March 2009 (UTC)