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ErikShoemaker — Black Hole
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Published: 2013-12-05 11:14:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 84055; Favourites: 3698; Downloads: 3720
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I initially created this piece to keep the classic space spirit alive because a certain person named ^Shue13 kept complaining about how the space art scene is dying. :-P Of course I always have to bring about some kind of apocalypse, so I complemented the at first quite simple scene with a black hole - et voilà.
It is also my third and final contribution to The Luminarium: Illuminate V. See the full exhibition here: theluminarium.net/v3/exhibits.…
As usual, thanks for stopping by!
© Erik Schumacher
This is no stock image, so don't use, copy or manipulate the original artwork without my written permission.
Visit my website: www.xkire.de
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This is one of the most awesome pieces of art I have seen on deviantart, I search up "Black Hole" and I find this, this wonderful picture. As I love everything and anything to do with Space, this blew me away.
Also if that is Saturn getting pulled in, I question how the black hole even got there in the first place as there are no stars other than the sun near us, except for Alpha Centauri.
But I should wrap this up, I congratulate you on this piece of art work. Well done sir. I wish I was as good as you e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/s… " width="15" height="15" alt="
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Thank you very much for the nice critique!
To answer your question, the planet shown is not necessarily Saturn, but rather a fictional planet with rings. Otherwise it would have to be a gas giant, which this one isn't if you look closely at the texture.
So this could be happening anywhere in our universe really.
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Your welcome, yeah I figured out it couldn't of been Saturn, I figured it out straight after I posed the critique, there is no possible way it can be Saturn, thanks for ironing this out.
Love the artwork, it is my background still
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I love the overall idea behind this piece, and it's really well executed. I will only mention things that the other folks did not say in their critiques, not that I agree with everything they said.
My only problem with the piece is the rings. Rings, as we know are made up of relatively small pieces of debris, ice, etc... The rings here appear to be solid masses. I see them breaking up near the edges, but somehow they seem too dark and thick.
I'm not 100% sure how rings would appear in this situation, but somehow I think that bright light behind them would somehow show through the disk.
I think it might be interesting if the rings were somehow unwound from the planet, perhaps they would get sucked into the black hole first. Again, not a physicist here, just an idea.
Other than that, its a remarkable image. All the other elements are great. Good job!
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You're right about the rings in my opinion. 
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This is so beautiful. The color contrast is absolutely eye-arresting, as if I could look away to begin with.
You don't know how happy this makes me; I've always been something of a space nut, and over the past few years I've developed this unyielding affinity towards black holes.
It's my most favorite kind of anomaly, and quite literally the maker/executioner of any galaxy it inhabits.
I adore them when they're dormant and watching space distort around it, but they are so much more attractive when they feed.
If this art piece becomes the last thing I lay eyes on, then I would still be satisfied.
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From my perspective, being interested in astrology, physics, and the science-fiction fan that I am, I have to say this is stunning, incredible work.
The colors are surreal, but are very fitting if you consider that you are trying to express space-time distortion, intense gravity and energy at work. Based on what we know about singularities, this is a very accurate depiction. You have the distortion of the event horizon, that warping of literally space, time, matter, light, everything, with the dark center of the black hole itself from which nothing escapes. You managed to make the center almost look a little like a globe, a reminder of the remnant that was a star once.
The entire piece gives the feeling that you are pulled in, that there is no escape, and I really love the overall distorted feeling of the picture, I couldn't have come up with a better picture in my mind of what the proximity to a black hole would be like.
I am impressed and in awe and I cannot really find anything to fault this, as much as I like to give constructive advice or suggestions. This should be at the very least a cover for an astrophysics book, or maybe even for a new edition of Hawking's "A Brief History of Time". Nice work!
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Thank you for the nice critique and the great compliments (specially the book cover part)! I really appreciate it! I'm glad to hear that a senior space art lover approves. :-D
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It's well deserved. You often see imagery, graphics or concepts that depict theoretical phenomena (as far as we can describe them), but you actually made it believable. Gute Arbeit!
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Youi have the blurred lines on the ring going toward the black hole, but its not focused to the middle of the blackhole. It looks more like its going to the top of the hole. The color clashing is pretty good, but you could have used a different (more warm colors) would have been a better look in my opinion. The black hole would have stretched the planets ends, instesad of just breaking it all. The blur effects were very well done and the rotation and background looks amazing! the rings are starting to stretch there at a few inches up from 3/4 from right to left. the ring coloration is well done as well e.deviantart.net/emoticons/b/b… " width="15" height="15" alt="
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I have to back up Erik on this one. Any mater falling into the hole would fall in a spiral, representing a rapidly decaying orbit. and even if the objects in the frame were naturally warm colored they would take on a blueish hue representing the light source rapidly receding from the viewer.
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Nice critic but, think about all of the rotating gas, they say if anything were to touch it, eventually it would be grounded up, kinda like a sander against wood. 
(Referring when you said "It wouldn't break apart.)
But yes it would definitely stretch
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Actually everything is supposedly attracted to the 'edge' of the black hole, which is called the 'event horizon'. Not sure this comes across very well, or which blurred lines you exactly refer to on that matter?
Thank you very much for the critique!
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Saw your image on a article: www.anonews.co/nasa-spotted-so…
Hope they asked
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thanks for letting me know! They did not, but since they credited with a link to my page it is fine with me
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Cool.... Chew their ass then
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May I use this as the background for my computer? I thought i should ask you before i use it.
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of course you may!
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Thank you, i adore anything space realted, and I love black holes
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I would have prefered it if the planet was being streached out like blackholes normally do instaid of distroying it
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I would question the statement "like blackholes normally do" as the stretching strongly depends on the material that is affected. The planet here has a solid crust and, therefore, a small elastic modulus so it is bound to break at some point if a strong force is applied to it. Imagine a stone that would usually break under pressure rather than being deformed like a bouncy ball. Light, gases or fluids on the other hand are bent and stretched strongly around a black hole because they don't have a solid form.
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Well, the rings should have long since been erased before it got that close.
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tbh a black hole that size would have sucked it up way before it got that close. but it is still cool!
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Well there's gotta be a moment in time when the planet has exactly this distance from the black hole, but it might be broken apart before that. The appearance of the black hole, the colors, none of it is at all realistic actually. But I still like the result visually. Thanks for the comment!
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Well, that’s another matter entirely. Schtickling is so popular we forget about simple emotional effect can be appropriately applied to cosmic art scenarios too, like the old artists who depicted an otherwise realistic sea storm with the crashing wave taking the form of a hand about to smite a ship.
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haha not necessarily Saturn, just a planet with rings.
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lol I know a couple people who would've thought the same. xD
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Your gallery is just stunning, i really do love your style.
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