After a little marathon across the Elite: Dangerous Milky Way today, I finally got to my destination, a Black Hole over 20,000 light years from Earth.
The last day was not uneventful, we found a system of four stars in close orbit:
Not super unusual in game, but a pretty shot none the less, on the left the purple object is a brown dwarf star, they are very cool and are really almost a large gas giant, it has rings and we see a yellow/orange and two yellow stars shining through.
Skipping along a little later we found a very rare Earth-like planet:
This is human breathable atmosphere, just ready to be settled by us, if it was not so far away. In the middle is what looks like a moon, but in fact is another planet the same size and mass as the Earth-like, thus they orbit one another in a binary configuration.
Finally we come to the...
Unimpressed? Look carefully in the middle there is a tiny black dot, yeah, now you see it. What did you expect, an orange with lime green stripes object?
The fun part, is what happens if you fly close to the black hole:
Gravitational lensing as predicted by Einstein and observed in the real universe, its not the stars that are moving as I approach, nor the light that is bending, but the immense gravitaional forces deforming the fabric of space-time itself
Well thats that then, two weeks labour for 30 seconds of fun, we've all done that before, now havn't we? All I have to do now, is take my passengers on the 20,000 light year journey home, see you in a couple of weeks!
