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Black Magic Project The Story of Human Exploration and Discovery Beyond the Orion Arm The materials contained herein unless otherwise noted are the copyright of J. Austin Wilde, 1991 to 2009, all rights reserved. |
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The Encyclopedia contains information
regarding the Sagittarius Arm and its inhabitants as well as relevent
historical knowledge of people, places, and events that led to its
colonization. Entries are cross-referenced as much as practical
to allow free-form browsing of the databanks so that visitors may
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| XR+64 2231 Stellar mass black hole located 47.1 light years from Gateway. Mass: 2.621 Solar Masses. XR+64 2231 was first detected in November 2357 by the Interstellar Very Large Baseline Interferometry Telescope network from data compiled from the various nodes of the system. Ryuichi Mizuno of the Hayes-Mizuno Habitable Star Catalogue first noted the black hole as an x-ray source, then, after observing gravitational lensing effects in the data, surmised that it might be a collapsed star. The Bonaventure class explorer Adventurer (AMC-009), commanded by L.K. Vorhees, was tasked with investigating XR+64 2231 during Expedition FIVE. Adventurer successfully materialized within the system on February 13, 2359, and confirmed that the object was in fact a black hole. Adventurer spent three months observing the black hole before returning to Gateway. XR+64 2231 is currently inactive. The system itself is devoid of any significant planetary bodies, and it is surmised that the black hole may have consumed them during its Giant phase as it moved off of the Main Sequence. The system itself does contain a thin remnant of a planetary nebula, but judging from the paucity of dust and gas remaining, the original star became a black hole billions of years in the past, and any material that now falls into the event horizon of the hole does so only because of gravitational perturbations on the nebula remant by the surrounding stars. XR+64 2231 has not been visited by the SDC since the Adventurer's survey in 2359. There are no plans at the present to return. |
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| X-Ray Source Catalogue The X-Ray Source Catalogue was compiled by automated x-ray telescopes prior to manned expeditions to Sagittarius. The purpose of the survey was to identify black holes and fast spinning neutron stars known as pulsars for future astrogation databases. Stellar objects whose catalogue numbers begin with 'XR' are part of the catalogue. A listing of Star System Catalogues can be found here. |
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