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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like some shit the Culture does

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or the Bobs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hard to find enough material to encircle that one.

Maybe that's why those "dark matter only" galaxies exist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 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