Balck Holes too soft

[Sirkit]

Of course I ment detection from Earth, but a quick point of order all black holes have an accreation disc, this area in with space is warped by the intence gravity exists wether there is something there on not the size of this area is determined by the overall desity of the hole the shape is determined by its rotation, also time is warped arount the hole this may affect how quickly the crew of a ship can respond and how quickly the signal they transmit will reach the general empire but in general loosing a ship to a black hole wouldn't be a common thing if the captain has some idea of stellar cartography and how vectors work, if he/she doesn't he/she shoudent be in space!

Now to the statment that black holes are in the middle of nowhere, not really, black holes are thought to exist in the center of our galaxy. Since early stars witch would form early in the universe time scale would be massive black holes should be damn near everywhere, assuming that the large stars were even half as plentiful as the ones witch exist now they may in fact be in the area of several thousand in the general vacinity of Sol (an estimate I will admit).

Suicide Junkie may I ask where you knowlege of stellar phenomenon is derived?