David Braben compares in-game Sagittarius A* image (modified) with today's M87 black hole image
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This article says that Sagittarius A* does have an accretion disk IRL:
Yes, but potential new purchasers of Elite don't know thatMy point is there is no accretion disc in Elite´s. Any similarity of the pictures (you really need to squint a lot, or apply filters) is coincidental thanks to the warped milky way light.
I take it as a funny and intentional joke 
The red light on the bottom is an accretion disk not a lens distortion of the galaxy in the background.
Elite's black hole is also missing the light ring around the event's horizon.
This video explains quite well why one side is brighter and one side is darker.
Accretion's Disk
The red light on the bottom is an accretion disk not a lens distortion of the galaxy in the background.
Elite's black hole is also missing the light ring around the event's horizon.
This video explains quite well why one side is brighter and one side is darker.
Accretion's Disk
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+1 for the reference. That Youtube guy nailed what it would look like !I take it as a funny and intentional joke
The red light on the bottom is an accretion disk not a lens distortion of the galaxy in the background.
Elite's black hole is also missing the light ring around the event's horizon.
This video explains quite well why one side is brighter and one side is darker.
Accretion's Disk
in the words of the AvE: "focus you faaa..."
personally, I felt the XKCD image was more believable
M87 Black Hole Size Comparison
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If you enhance the black hole just a bit more you can see the word Powerplay swirling around it. Kappa.
Thanks for sharing! Amazing!
You wouldn't see an X-ray jet, because it's...x-ray
But it seems like ships in ED with their fancy glass and holographic tech can adjust image you see through canopy in all kinds of ways. Like how stars don't immediately blind you. It would be cool to see more canopy overlays like nigh vision we've got. Like X-ray spectrum, infrared, magnetic fields etc. Would make exploration within a single system so much more fun. Finding anomalies not usually visible in narrow light spectrum we usually see.
I take it as a funny and intentional joke
The red light on the bottom is an accretion disk not a lens distortion of the galaxy in the background.
Elite's black hole is also missing the light ring around the event's horizon.
This video explains quite well why one side is brighter and one side is darker.
Accretion's Disk
It's missing the entire event horizon. What Braben is trying to pass off as an event horizon is just the darker part of the skybox being lensed.
This. Braben is stretching. If he stretched any further he'd undergo spaghettification.
Still very cool to see a real one (in whatever way that's presented to us); I don't think ED's ones are particularly amazing - the warping effect can be cool, but that was true in 1999 with mirrored GIFs on early web pages. I think we'd all like some development there (gravity, hull stress, etc) alongside comets and other stellar phenomena.
Yeah, he should have started his message with something like "Fun comparison" or something.....
Oh wait....