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Markku Laaksonen
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#41 - 2014-04-03 23:41:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Markku Laaksonen
There is a landmark you can view on the star map somewhere in Minmatar space. It is a black hole of some size large enough to be notable. I forget the name, but it starts with a G and has a Minmatar-Nordic sounding name. I can find it when I'm able to get in game.

EDIT: Zaknussem beat me to it. It's called Ginnungagap.

Lot's of people commenting on New Eden not being a galaxy. However you classify it, it's very clearly not part of the Milky Way.

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Kaarous Aldurald
Black Hydra Consortium.
#42 - 2014-04-04 00:31:58 UTC
Agata Matahari wrote:
Seraph Essael wrote:
As already stated, New Eden is not a galaxy.

Just also putting it out there that bulgeless galaxies such as M33 do not appear to have sufficient central stellar velocity dispersions to contain central supermassive black holes. To assume that every galaxy has a supermassive black hole is simply wrong...


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You? You of all people, who called the game "an astrophysical nightmare" are trying to ironically call someone Einstein?

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Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#43 - 2014-04-04 00:46:30 UTC
* Wonders what sort of server is needed to support EVE as a galaxy the size of the milky way, 100,000 light years across with 100 billion star systems.


Quick maths exercise .... 100 billion systems versus 50,000 players logged in = 2 million star systems each
One Eyed Runner
GetYaTitsOut
#44 - 2014-04-04 01:02:36 UTC
this this space isn't real....OMGCool

I live in Jita so f*ck off
Caviar Liberta
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#45 - 2014-04-04 01:44:15 UTC
James Amril-Kesh wrote:
Solecist Project wrote:
Jenn aSide wrote:
My question is: Why the Hole gotta be Black? And why no talk about how the oppressive White stars are the one's that will burn you to death?

Related: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efiW2K8gASM

Hawkings nowadays claims they are actually gray.

I don't believe anything people say along the lines of "famous scientist says this", especially if they don't even get said famous scientist's name right.


I'll just leave this here for you.
Divine Entervention
Doomheim
#46 - 2014-04-04 02:37:41 UTC
Not to mention shooting through objects to hit other objects.

game is broken.
Val'Dore
PlanetCorp InterStellar
#47 - 2014-04-04 03:09:49 UTC
What would be the point of a black hole in the center of all the galaxies?









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Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
#48 - 2014-04-04 03:12:19 UTC
Hasikan Miallok wrote:
* Wonders what sort of server is needed to support EVE as a galaxy the size of the milky way, 100,000 light years across with 100 billion star systems.


Deep Thought™

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James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#49 - 2014-04-04 06:08:27 UTC
Zaknussem wrote:
Somewhere in (or around) Minmatar space there is a thing called "Ginnungagap". You can see it on the Star Map. You can also right-click it and "Show Info" to read that it is, in fact, a black hole.

Ginnungagap wrote:
Ginnungagap is a huge black hole at the edge of Minmatar space. It is the largest black hole close to civilized space. The black hole has already rendered several solar systems close to it uninhabitable, but otherwise it is not considered to pose any great risk to inhabited space for the foreseeable future. The black hole can be seen very clearly in the Konora system, located very close to it.

There's large black holes, and there's supermassive black holes.

The inhabited EVE systems closest to that black hole wouldn't be affected much even by a black hole of several hundred or even thousands of solar masses, as fits with the description. They would however be severely affected by one that was the size you find at the center of galaxies. That much should be obvious to anyone who would be writing the descriptions, given the relative distances between stars in EVE.

Another landmark is "Point of No Return", just below Ginnungagap.
Point of No Return wrote:
Point of no Return is a small black hole located not far from empire space. The black hole is rather old and was formed by a sun only just large enough to create a black hole when it collapsed. One interesting fact about it is that it's located more or less exactly in the center of the known world, if you only count those systems that have been linked with star gates.

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James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#50 - 2014-04-04 06:18:21 UTC
Hasikan Miallok wrote:
* Wonders what sort of server is needed to support EVE as a galaxy the size of the milky way, 100,000 light years across with 100 billion star systems.


Quick maths exercise .... 100 billion systems versus 50,000 players logged in = 2 million star systems each

You might as well just build the ******* universe from scratch at this point.

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
Eugene Kerner
TunDraGon
Goonswarm Federation
#51 - 2014-04-04 11:37:59 UTC
New Eden is really tiny in relation to the milky way.

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