Voyage of the Stars

The first batch of probe spacecraft sent out had seven ships, all of which safely arrived at the Roche limit critical orbit calculated according to the relevant parameters of the mass and material of the probe and the mass gravity of the black hole. The process of the probe spacecraft flying to the black hole was very regular. It started with warp speed, and after reaching a certain range of the black hole, it was time to use conventional propulsion to navigate. The orbital distance was precisely calculated, and there were no accidents.

The second batch was still seven exploration spacecraft, but this batch of spacecraft did not sail as regularly as the first batch, and three of them went directly to the Roche limit critical point of the black hole at warp speed. This batch of exploration spacecraft is experimental in nature. Their navigation status and their own status are detected by the instruments on them in real time, and they are also under the camera monitoring of the previous batch of exploration spacecraft.

These three spacecrafts had almost no accidents. The warp navigation direction was confused before the warp navigation reached the Roche limit of the black hole. It was not that human instruments were directly broken, the force field generator was not broken, but it was disturbed by the strong gravity of the black hole, the warp force field was out of control, and then the exploration spacecraft flew crooked.

When the exploration spacecraft flew off course, humans could still see from the feedback data of the monitoring module installed on the exploration spacecraft that the spacecraft's warp force field automatic control system was still trying to correct the strength and direction of the force field, but it was ultimately in vain.

The more the intelligent system of the exploration spacecraft corrected, the more uncontrollable it became, and it eventually became like a headless fly running around in the warp state, and then was directly pulled over by the gravity of the black hole in a superluminal warp spiral. Finally, the warp engine malfunctioned, and it was forced to exit the warp state and fall into the black hole.

Facts have proved that warp navigation is very dangerous under extreme gravity, especially near black holes, which is much more serious than the experiments conducted by humans near the orbit of gas planets in the past, and has reached the point of aircraft destruction and death. When humans were experimenting on gas planets, the experimental spacecraft did have this kind of forced exit from the warp, but the warp engine was not broken. The experimental spacecraft could even enter the regular navigation mode after exiting the warp navigation state, and then push itself away from the near orbit of the gas planet.

Some experimental spacecraft can even be forced to land directly on rocky planets after being forced to exit the warp state due to the needs of extreme experiments.

With the current shipbuilding technology and material technology of human beings, their ships can completely resist the gravitational influence of conventional planets. It is not a problem for planetary warships to land on planets, and they will not be torn apart by the gravitational tides of these ordinary celestial bodies.

So although it is not suitable for warp navigation in the near orbit of conventional celestial bodies, there will be no situation of aircraft destruction and death. To be precise, with the current warp navigation technology of human beings, as long as human spacecraft flies to the space orbit of planets like the earth, they can start the warp and leave. Although there are still some risks, the process of entering the warp state will be slower, and it cannot directly enter the warp of ten times the speed of light, but it is still possible to enter the warp of one times the speed of light.

Of course, it is still difficult to start the warp navigation and leave directly on the surface of the planet. After many experiments, human scientists have concluded that the human warp force field is not strong enough and has not reached the level of violent entry into the warp. Material technology and warp engine manufacturing technology are also one of the influencing factors.

In short, scientists believe that with the advancement of technology, humans will one day be able to enter the warp speed directly on the surface of the planet.

The warp speed experiment near the black hole is to collect more data for research in this area, and these data will also provide valuable data for humans to navigate in various cosmic gravitational environments in the future.

In the future, if we encounter neutron star environments, magnetars, etc., human scientists will also need to do relevant navigation experiments to collect data for humans. As an interstellar civilization, such data is necessary because these things can be said to be the hidden strength of a civilization.

Three of the second batch of exploration spacecrafts eventually could not avoid the fate of falling into black holes, but they also brought precious scientific data to humans. The other four were doing another experiment. They approached the black hole in a proper manner, and continued to approach the black hole without stopping after reaching the position of the first batch.

After reaching this point, they released several meteorites that were sealed in metal boxes by humans from their storage space, so human scientists saw the process of natural objects being torn apart by gravity within the Roche limit of the black hole.

After the metal boxes were opened, the meteorites released were decomposed by gravitational tides. The large meteorites had cracks on their surfaces like muffin foam, and then they were torn apart. The tearing into large pieces and the large pieces being torn into pieces almost happened at the same time. After only a few seconds, the large meteorites were torn into small pieces and then powder. Finally, under the pull of the black hole's gravity, they were pulled into a long sand belt, and then they orbited the black hole and fell inward because of the conservation of angular momentum.

This process was recorded truthfully by humans and became a real data in the database for celestial body interaction simulation.

It is certain that humans will call this data when they need to simulate celestial body collisions in the future. These real data will make human simulations closer to reality, rather than computer deductions out of nothing.

Obviously, the positions reached by the four exploration spacecraft have exceeded the Roche limit radius of the black hole to natural celestial bodies. However, the four spacecraft are human technological creations. Their materials are much stronger than natural objects. Therefore, the black hole cannot tear them apart within the Roche limit radius of natural objects. The logic of this principle is easy to understand.

If there are enough of these torn materials, then the accretion disk that people are familiar with will be formed.

After releasing the meteorite, the four exploration spacecraft continued to approach the black hole, and their destination was the innermost stable circular orbit of the black hole. However, humans obviously overestimated the material technology of these four spacecrafts. They followed the footsteps of the previous meteorites before they reached the innermost stable circular orbit.

Seeing this situation, scientists know that it is impossible to reach the innermost stable circular orbit of the black hole with the current strength of conventional materials of humans.

Since conventional materials are not good, then use alloy material No. 2.

Launching a detection spacecraft made of alloy material No. 2 to the black hole is the plan of human scientists. They have been prepared before setting out to study the black hole, so the third batch of exploration spacecraft was launched soon.

The results were quickly fed back to the scientific research center for this black hole exploration. The detectors, which were almost all made of No. 2 alloy material, lived up to expectations and passed the range where the previous batch of detectors were torn apart. However, they ultimately failed to reach the target orbit because the internal detection instruments were torn apart by the strong gravity, and then lost control and were completely captured by the gravity of the black hole and pulled inward. In the end, even the empty shell made of No. 2 alloy material could not maintain its original state and was torn apart by the strong gravity.

And the location where they were torn apart was also detected by humans. It was about four times the radius of this black hole, which was still a little off, but human scientists were not discouraged.

Because if this black hole has an accretion disk, then this place is already inside the accretion disk.