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Published: 2012-07-04 21:21:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 1161; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 16
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My first ever digital space art... not bad for a first try, huh? ^^If you can't tell, it's a black hole eating
I couldn't figure out how to make a perfect gravitational lensing effect, but I tried to duplicate it anyway, and I think it turned out pretty well
I did this entirely in photoshop CS3, without any plugins or importing of images, everything is original
I suppose this would open up another story line... a sci-fi one
Comments much appreciated ^^
Also, this is my new desktop background :3
and happy fourth of july to my american watchers
There are some mistakes I made that I didn't catch until it was too late, see if you can spot them
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Thanks ^^
Now I just need to get as good at drawing characters as you
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Morta: Wowwwww! Ya ever seen one'a these up close? They're well scary! Ya got the gravitational lensing down pretty good, dude! Good stuff!
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Space. Space. Gotta go to space. So much space to see.
WOW, this IS impressive! DANG. I don't know what to say! 
It looks really good, I thought it was a photo at first! O.O
And the mistake? Don't really know too much about black holes. They're pretty disturbing, especially when they're eating, so I didn't really want to find out but um, from this perspective the radial blur at the center of the thingy with the two white columns (sorry xD) . . . shouldn't be like a circle, facing us? We should be seeing the side? o_O So it looks like a line . . ? Ah, I don't know 
SPAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCE!
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It's not really photo manipulation, there was never any photo in this piece, no import or place, no star field base background, I made everything in photoshop
(I take it you mean you thought the background was a photo, and not the black hole eating the red giant
yah, it should be on it's side
technically the gravitational lensing should interact with the stuff inside that lens-ring, but that would make it confusing, plus I'm not sure how I would do that... it would look about the same as the light wrapped around I think.
Those white-blue columns are the high speed plasma jets shooting out of the poles of the black hole's poles... fun fact... usually when a black hole eats, much more stuff is blasted off into space than actually falls in.
The mistake is a hard line of starts on the bottom right of the picture, which I partially covered with the glare of that binary star.
Guilty! of being in space!
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Sorry, my bad, I meant photo-manipulation as in when people make stuff out of nothing but it isn't pure drawing.
That's what I meant.
It looks so interesting and challenging.
And that was what was wrong? Well, congrats. It's not too obvious
And oh, it should be Black Hole Regurgitation then xD
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It's not really regurgitation, as nothing COMES OUT of the black hole, it's more like eating and spilling most of what you're eating... and then having friction and gravity shoot that out as high speed plasma jets...
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Aww, you just crushed all my hopes and dreams
ONE DAY WE'LL FIND A WAY TO ESCAPE THE BLACK HOLE. ONE DAY WE WILL . . .
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If you could survive the extreme tidal spaghettification forces (that's the actual scientific name of them) some people think they could lead through wormholes to white holes... But most scientists think this quite unlikely
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SPAGETTIFICATION. LOL. Sweet. 
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(because the gravity would be stronger on the closer part of your body, so you would be ripped apart and pulled out "like spaghetti"
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This is actually pretty accurate, as far as I can tell anyway. The radial blurring you see isn't the accretion disk, which is smaller on the picture, and appears elliptical, as if we're seeing it almost, but not quite exactly side-on. The radial blurring is the gravitational lensing caused by the curvature of space all around the black hole, and would appear the same from all angles. The columns are known as relativistic jets. As mass from the companion star is pulled into the black hole, it spirals round its centre of mass, and as it gets closer and closer, it rotates faster and faster, and since it's electromagnetically charged, it thereby produces huge magnetic fields, ejecting charged particles out of the accretion disk before they cross the event horizon, perpendicular to the disk, at speeds approaching the speed of light. The accretion disk gets really hot and dense as it approaches the event horizon - hot enough for fusion reactions, and indeed, hotter than the companion star, with an emission spectrum that peaks in the x-ray - hence the name of this kind of system - and x-ray binary.
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Wow, I love science but I honestly didn't know all this stuff! That is so cool, how the radial blur appears from all the angles. And relativistic jets--I'll remember that. hat was very informative. Thank you!
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Imagine looking through a spherical glass bead - the light is refracted the same no matter what angle you view it from. It's the same with gravitational lensing. The gravitational field of a point-mass (and if a black hole ain't a point-mass, nothing is!) is the same in all directions - spherical in structure. Therefore, we can expect the gravitational lensing effect to appear the same from all angles.
And, you're welcome
Also: [link] << this is a really really good way of learning a ton of astronomy & astrophysics & stuff while waiting for the bus, doing the dishes and whatever :-D
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Great example, that clears it up!
And duude, that is so cool, thank you! Definitely great for getting rid of the silence with some useful info.
Thanks so much again!
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Thanks
Your paintings of space are amazing too, tough :3
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Haha, thanks ^^ but really, this is epic
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