First encounter? - !CONFIRMED!

has that thing just formed a black hole?

Impressive. Although wondering how you can hear it in space
They must have direct access to your sound engine of your ship

its possible to hear sounds in space
electro-magnetic waves could cause a resonance on the ship hull which you could hear in the cockpit

also explosions of ships could in theory cause sound that you can hear

I just assume that an electro-magnetic wave that is strong enough for that would kill you before you hear the first rumbling.

BUT!!!!
maybe there is just a weak electro-magnetic wave which hits a detector on the ship and then gets re-emitted by the high-end sound system of the ship.....
the ship has speakers right?

not to get into quantum physics or anything but Space is a vacuum last i checked. Haven't you seen Gravity? No doubt that debris hit something that was flammable and in atmospheric conditions, would generate an explosion, smoke, fire etc.

But due to space being a vacuum n all, an "explosion" would be as if you took away the smoke and fire and saw just the debris flying in every direction, doomed to travel for eternity at high velocity. Who knows? Maybe the debris from blow up a ship will reach an alien astronaut doing an EVA spacewalk thousands of years later and rips through his space suit and kills him?

I think i saw a documentary on space weapons once. They focused more on laser weaponry and magnetically accelerated projectiles (Rail guns or Halo's MAC Cannon) Then they talked about anti-matter bombs and their destructive capabilities.

Might get this game on the next Steam sale

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not to get into quantum physics or anything but Space is a vacuum last i checked. Haven't you seen Gravity? No doubt that debris hit something that was flammable and in atmospheric conditions, would generate an explosion, smoke, fire etc.

But due to space being a vacuum n all, an "explosion" would be as if you took away the smoke and fire and saw just the debris flying in every direction, doomed to travel for eternity at high velocity. Who knows? Maybe the debris from blow up a ship will reach an alien astronaut doing an EVA spacewalk thousands of years later and rips through his space suit and kills him?

I think i saw a documentary on space weapons once. They focused more on laser weaponry and magnetically accelerated projectiles (Rail guns or Halo's MAC Cannon) Then they talked about anti-matter bombs and their destructive capabilities.

Might get this game on the next Steam sale

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I disagree that you wont see fire on explosions.
It depends highly on what explodes.
Exploding gas will cause a fire, even in space since there is a matter which can burn.
Same for decompression explosions because then the oxigen would burn.
The flames would look different then those on earth due to 0-gravity but there would be flames. Most likely it would look like a plasma ball.

notes: The experiments described in the video were in a super controlled enviornment, let alone a pressurized one with pure oxygen (vs the polluted nitrogen-carbon mix we breath). Fire + Pure o2 = bad.

If there was a rapid decompression event such as a large projectile breaching the hull, there would a small window of a time a fire explosion could happen, but as the VACUUM OF SPACE rips apart the hull and sucks everything into the vastness of the big empty, anything that could cause combustion would ultimately be sucked into space. A fire would not last very long during rapid decompression.

Now for sound, you might hear your last remain gasps at attempts to swallow oxygen as your begin your eternal journal through the vastness of the universe, possibly turning up thousands or millions of years later at an alien civilization. That is, if you didn't die in the explosion...

Hull might be glowing hot after a major hull breach but the cold temperatures of space extinguish it