johnl3d Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 Rough draft of black hole or at least an attempt star globe animated perlin and some steam v12a all suggestions welcome this is a very fast animation http://johnl.inform.net/pages/black_hole.htm and a still image Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
higginsdj Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 The event horizon of a black hole will be a matt black sphere (nothing gets out - not even light so you can't see through it nor see any reflections) Black holes are polar ie it is surrounded by an acretion disk (if close enough to a stellar object to be able to start gobbling it up) on the plain of it's 'equator' and jets of plasma ejected at right angles to the disk - it's poles. (The acretion disk will be reasonably thick) Edit: One thing I forgot to add. A black hole that isn't feeding (that is - doesn't have an acretion disk) can still be detected by the lensing effect. The center of the black hole will not act as a lense (since no light can pass or escape) but further out the background stars will appear to trace a curve around the black hole centre. As viewed from earth, if the black hole passes directly in front of a star the star will brighten significantly as the light is magnified. Note we can only see the effect we can't actually see the black hole. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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