Black holes and the galactic centre in No Man's Sky

How No Man's Sky black holes work: find one from its glyphs, and how far each jump brings you toward the centre, measured on 23 749 recorded jumps.

Where black holes are

A black hole always sits in a yellow star system, and always at the same place in its region: system number 079. In a portal address, that is glyphs 2 to 4 reading 079, Sunset, Bug, Galaxy (see Glyphs).

The catalogue agrees: more than 24 000 recorded systems use that number, and all of them but a handful of typing mistakes are yellow. A region holds a few hundred systems, so number 079 is almost always there: a black hole is rarely far from where you stand.

How far does a black hole take you?

Fly into a black hole and you come out in another system of the same galaxy, closer to the centre. This site keeps 23 749 recorded black hole jumps, with their entry and their exit.

• 99.6 % of them bring the traveller closer to the centre.
• Half of them gain more than 6 200 light-years toward the centre.
• The exit is usually far away sideways: half of the jumps land more than 600 000 light-years from where they started.

A black hole is a shortcut toward the core, not a straight line: it saves warps, not distance on the map.

How many black holes to the centre?

The galaxy is about 820 000 light-years from rim to centre. At some 6 200 light-years per black hole, a traveller starting near the rim needs more than a hundred of them, plus the warps between. Starting closer to the core, much fewer.

Each system page of a black hole shows where it leads, when someone recorded the exit, so you can plan a chain of jumps. Every galaxy also has a centre page, with the regions closest to the core and the glyphs that lead to them.

What lies at the centre?

The centre of every galaxy leads to the next one. Reach it, go through, and you wake up with a damaged ship in the next galaxy: Euclid leads to Hilbert, Hilbert to Calypso, and so on. The road has two twists, told on the galaxies page: Iousongola, the 255th, brings you back to Euclid, and Odyalutai, the 256th, sits off the road.

Black holes on this site

• Every galaxy's centre: Euclid, Hilbert, Calypso, and the 253 others from the galaxies.
• The galaxy in 3D: fly toward the core in the flythrough.
• Record a jump: entered a black hole? Note the system you came from and the one you reached, and contribute it. Every recorded exit helps the next traveller.

Last updated: 1 November 2026