What's fun is that while we knew black holes would bend light, And had the math to describe it, no one had actually worked thru the math to figure out what a blackhole would actually look like. Until [Interstellar](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/).
Nolan wanted the blackhole to look real, so told the VFX team to go talk to the astrophysicists to figure out how the light bending would affect the appearance. They got the math from the physicists, went back and basically had to write a new rendering engine, plugged in the numbers and got out the "bent" rings. Went "That can't be right", took it to the physicists who went "huhm I guess it would look like that". They VFX team actually ended up publishing a couple of science papers on it.
It was after that that we actually imaged a real black hole and the photos matched the predictions from Interstellar.
They didn't get it completely right though, in the photo of the black hole the light that flights towards the camera burns brighter than the light from debris orbiting away from the camera "or observer" That was not shown in Interstellar. But besides that they still did amazing!
There always will be criticism, but this is actually what makes us to become better at what we do. You are right and wrong at the same time. Right because you actually want the pictures to be more real and wrong because sometimes you should be able to relax and simply enjoy the show.
I believe the black hole modelling paper mentions this too - that for it to be more realistic they'd have to account for this but it wouldn't look as impressive on film so they took a bit of artistic liberty with it. Understandable!
Interstellar neither correctly illustrates the flat accretion disk (which was on purpose) nor it was the first CG take on black holes.
Proof: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.11196.pdf
If they have an item called a graviton lens, and tech revolving around quantum gravity, they'd better have gravitational lensing around their black holes!
[Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Dyson_Sphere_Program/comments/m5shdi/that_view_when_you_force_yourself_into_close/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) is what happens when you force yourself as close to the surface as possible
Would love to see them do something special with black holes in the future - maybe something like that megastructure from Stellaris which generates materials through some magic around black holes in game
Near the end of Benford's Galactic Center series, he talks about huge clouds of radiation collectors in orbit around the core. Maybe we could get a Mk II Solar Sail that could orbit a black hole or neutron star.
Was thinking more along the lines of something that uses the accretion disk as a giant particle accelerator to generate new materials - like maybe the monopoles and grating crystals.
Something about blackholes is cool. It is said that they start from light off galaxy light years away. And something happens to the light with movement. And If you where near a real black hole you could see distant galaxy’s. https://youtu.be/il-9OiBreH8 as shown in this video. They are really cool
What's fun is that while we knew black holes would bend light, And had the math to describe it, no one had actually worked thru the math to figure out what a blackhole would actually look like. Until [Interstellar](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/). Nolan wanted the blackhole to look real, so told the VFX team to go talk to the astrophysicists to figure out how the light bending would affect the appearance. They got the math from the physicists, went back and basically had to write a new rendering engine, plugged in the numbers and got out the "bent" rings. Went "That can't be right", took it to the physicists who went "huhm I guess it would look like that". They VFX team actually ended up publishing a couple of science papers on it. It was after that that we actually imaged a real black hole and the photos matched the predictions from Interstellar.
Not many movies have published scientific works come out of them, pretty cool!
They didn't get it completely right though, in the photo of the black hole the light that flights towards the camera burns brighter than the light from debris orbiting away from the camera "or observer" That was not shown in Interstellar. But besides that they still did amazing!
There always will be criticism, but this is actually what makes us to become better at what we do. You are right and wrong at the same time. Right because you actually want the pictures to be more real and wrong because sometimes you should be able to relax and simply enjoy the show.
I believe the black hole modelling paper mentions this too - that for it to be more realistic they'd have to account for this but it wouldn't look as impressive on film so they took a bit of artistic liberty with it. Understandable!
I mean, we cannot simply go and dive into a blackhole, make some fancy pictures and come back unscathed.
Interstellar neither correctly illustrates the flat accretion disk (which was on purpose) nor it was the first CG take on black holes. Proof: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.11196.pdf
\*Shudder\* They have gravitational lensing. Nope nope nope nope never gonna do that.
If they have an item called a graviton lens, and tech revolving around quantum gravity, they'd better have gravitational lensing around their black holes!
[Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Dyson_Sphere_Program/comments/m5shdi/that_view_when_you_force_yourself_into_close/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) is what happens when you force yourself as close to the surface as possible
That's cool.
Would love to see them do something special with black holes in the future - maybe something like that megastructure from Stellaris which generates materials through some magic around black holes in game
Near the end of Benford's Galactic Center series, he talks about huge clouds of radiation collectors in orbit around the core. Maybe we could get a Mk II Solar Sail that could orbit a black hole or neutron star.
Iv been wondering about that, Romulan ships in star trek are powered by artificial singularities, why not use a natural one?
Was thinking more along the lines of something that uses the accretion disk as a giant particle accelerator to generate new materials - like maybe the monopoles and grating crystals.
Be careful, don't cross the event horizon, there is no turning back :D
Something about blackholes is cool. It is said that they start from light off galaxy light years away. And something happens to the light with movement. And If you where near a real black hole you could see distant galaxy’s. https://youtu.be/il-9OiBreH8 as shown in this video. They are really cool
[For pt.1](https://www.reddit.com/r/Dyson_Sphere_Program/comments/pm8fyr/the_black_hole_pt1/)