The Right Scale of Things…. Huge Stars!! & Shoot Em Ups.

[retroborg]

Just look at that huge star “VY Canis Majoris”, the largest known to man!
That thing is as large (if not larger), than our entire Solar System!
These Stars would look very cool in other shoot em up stages….



I wonder if the fire stage of Life Force / Salamander takes place near to any of these stars.






And as for the binary star system "VV Cephei", it looks very similar to the fire-ice stage of Gaiares!

[yoda313]

Is that an original pre-8bit arcade game? Or is it a wii ware/psn store/xbox live arcade reissue?

[retroborg]

The 1st is Salamander / Life Force (1986) from the Arcades. It was also released for the 8-bit NES (my favourite version), as well as various other 8-bit/16-bit systems, including Salamander Deluxe Pack Plus on the 32-bit SEGA Saturn.

The 2nd is Gaiares (1990) for the 16-Bit SEGA MEGA Drive / Genesis.

Both are original / traditional, awesome shoot em ups! Salamander is perfectly playable in MAME arcade emulator, VirtuaNES Nintendo Emu & Gaiares on KEGA Fusion & GENS SEGA emus.

How ever, I'm not aware if they are released for the Wii,PSN or Xbox360 networks.

[guns1inger]

Tiny little thing.

There is a quasar designated OJ287 that contains, at it's centre, two black holes. The smaller is 100 million times the size of our sun. The larger of the black holes comes in at the slightly larger 18 billion times the size of our sun. Or around 10 millions times larger than VY Canis Majoris.

[retroborg]

Yeah but when you say "larger", do you mean larger in “mass” or in “volume”?
A black hole with a 100 solar masses wouldn't necessarily be very big in volume. It would probably take up less space than the earth it self, as black holes tend to be objects with incredible density and highly compressed mass.

The Super massive Black hole at the center of our Galaxy is roughly the size of our solar system and even that has the mass of 4 million solar masses!

[lordhutt]

Yeah but when you say "larger", do you mean larger in “mass” or in “volume”?
A black whole with a 100 solar masses wouldn't necessarily be very big in volume. It would probably take up less space than the earth it self, as black wholes tend to be objects with incredible density and highly compressed mass.

The Super massive Black whole at the center of our Galaxy is roughly the size of our solar system and even that has the mass of 4 million solar masses!

I probably take to your knowledge of black 'holes' more so if you knew how to spell it

[retroborg]

Yeah but when you say "larger", do you mean larger in “mass” or in “volume”?
A black whole with a 100 solar masses wouldn't necessarily be very big in volume. It would probably take up less space than the earth it self, as black wholes tend to be objects with incredible density and highly compressed mass.

The Super massive Black whole at the center of our Galaxy is roughly the size of our solar system and even that has the mass of 4 million solar masses!

I probably take to your knowledge of black 'holes' more so if you knew how to spell it

Lol!!

Actually, I corrected the mistake prior to posting it, but when I re-edited it to change the size of the "4 million solar masses", I accidentally re-pasted the original from my notepad!

But you still haven't answered my question regarding volume & mass of black holes in contrast to their size? (The total area they take up in space)?

If we were to create a picture in actual scale of their size (like the posted animated gif), how much larger would these black holes be compared to VY Canis Majoris?

[guns1inger]

Tried to find an estimation of just how large a volume is required by a black hole that is 18 billion solar masses, but it appears that they don't have that worked out yet. However they either need a superlative, to they need to revise down the description of our own galaxy's black hole from Super Massive to something more modest.