• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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    114 months ago

    Every time I see these ultramassive black holes all I see is the megastructure uber planet you can build around them, or if organic life has gone out of fashion at that point, the megastructure uber computer.

        • @TheTetrapod
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          4 months ago

          Great reference. The Bobs haven’t really achieved anything on this scale yet, though. The closest is the Skippies’ Matryoshka Brain, but IIRC they’re using a system of satellites around a brown dwarf star, which would be somewhat comparable in size to Jupiter. The Others’ Dyson Sphere project is closer, but I don’t think we really got a sense for how far along they were, and it looks like their home star is only a bit larger than Sol.

          Sorry if that came across as nitpicky, I was just excited to see a Bobiverse reference in the wild.

          Edit: Got the Others’ star mixed up in my head, it looks like it’s either a red dwarf or completely fictional.

    • @marcos
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      34 months ago

      Hard to find enough material to encircle that one.

      Maybe that’s why those “dark matter only” galaxies exist.

      • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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        34 months ago

        It would take multiple galaxies of matter to pull the material together, but if you’re planning on building a megastructure of this scale that’s probably not any trouble for you