Black hole racing
- There is a May 2017 version of this entry available from the original BHH Wiki at (2017) Black hole racing
Black hole racing was an extreme sport in the era of BHH that was mentioned in some versions of BHH around spring 2017. The concept originated in Michael's science fiction paracosm, the Idiodide Galaxy, and he copied it into BHH for the backstory of his fleeting key, Bale Santra. The principle of black hole racing was that participants had to race between two space stations on opposite sides of a black hole, passing as close as they dared to its event horizon. Each race had two winners — the fastest time between the space stations and the closest approach to the event horizon. In BHH, Bale had set the record in both categories.
Bale's records were completing a race in just over five hours and coming within one thousand two hundred and sixty kilometres of the event horizon. This suggests that black hole racing was carried out using smaller black holes (as opposed to supermassive black holes) with radii comparable to the asteriod belt, at about a sixth of light speed, or possibly at somewhat greater speeds if drastically different courses were taken in Bale's two record-setting races.
External links[edit | edit source]
- "Black hole racing" at the online Idiodide Galaxy encyclopaedia (which stopped being actively updated in April 2020).
