Who says you can't see black holes

Devari

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You can't see black holes the same way that you can't see UV radiation (unless of course you're a bumble bee, who can see into the UV spectrum). You can, however, see the effects of black holes, particularly those with accretion disks or that are affecting other sources of luminous matter in a visible way.
 

Comrade Error

Comrade Error
The second one is a planet not a black hole. Whenever I've lined up an actual star in-system with a black hole (both like really close to eachother) and it's still invisible.
 

ahwala

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The second one is a planet not a black hole.
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This.

But yeah, you can see them. Kind of.

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Comrade Error

Comrade Error
ahwala said:
This.

But yeah, you can see them. Kind of.

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Can you though? I mean you see their shape but all you see is a distorted background shaped into a sphere.

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Ziljan said:
Either that or gas giants are black holes when viewed from the back.
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Hah just noticed that you can see the stripes of the brown and white gas giant if you zoom in on the pic. lol.
 

BigBANGtheory [VR]

BigBANGtheory [VR]
It depends what you consider to be the black hole vs. the external effects.

What you can't see is the singularity behind the event horizon. Though it would be very cool for ED to model this so we could take a peek :cool:
 

Sapyx

Sapyx
'Tis a shame that light from stars and planets isn't distorted by a black hole's gravity, like light from the skybox is. There's a black hole orbiting really close to a blue giant, somewhere out Deneb way (sorry, didn't take notes or pics) and was disappointed at the lack of any interaction at all between star and hole.
 
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ledg

ledg
BluePilot said:
that second picture is very cool, how hard was it to get the composition correct?
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That's a matter of deliberately finding a moon in the right position and trying for a landing in rugged terrain at the point on the planet to get the shot. And the lighting/shading in ED is spectacular. Although this is an F, Type O stars provide beautiful, almost ultraviolet hues and you can get spectacular shots in those systems.

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Sapyx said:
'Tis a shame that light from stars and planets isn't distorted by a black hole's gravity, like light from the skybox is. There's a black hole orbiting really close to a blue giant, somewhere out Deneb way (sorry, didn't take notes or pics) and was disappointed at the lack of any interaction at all between star and hole.
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I was disappointed also. Hopefully that will get fixed in a future update along with accretion discs.

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ahwala said:
This.

But yeah, you can see them. Kind of.

http://screenshotscontent-t3002.xbo...e2e-aa8f-03c82dd060db/Screenshot-Original.png

http://screenshotscontent-t3002.xbo...a75-a5e7-a73a55c2dd02/Screenshot-Original.png
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Looks like you were a little closer than me. I got to about 650 km before I chickened out.
 
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