any "hole" experts

[johnl3d]

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

[higginsdj]

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