Create a Black Hole in Blender - Iridesium

Ever wonder where the other sock goes when you put them in the wash? Today we will be making the most terrifying object in the universe, a black hole. Can you imagine being this attractive and irresistible?

0:00 - Epic Intro
1:21 - Setup the Black Hole
2:04 - Black Hole Material
4:00 - Photon Sphere
5:03 - The Accretion Disk
9:38 - Accretion Disk Color
10:24 - Accretion Disk Density
13:22 - Finishing Touches
14:05 - Final Render

[onjp]

Me: Presses Render
My potato of a laptop: This Little Maneuver's Gonna Cost Us 51 Years

[WaterShowsProd]

"Or scale them down to zero." Reducing The Default Cube to a singularity.

[ojask]

I heard it somewhere that for the movie interstellar, they made a whole new rendering engine with different light physics to get realistic black holes.

[abhipatel]

Joel : there will be almost no puns
next line: so let's start pulling stuff together
me: *slow claps*

[ScienceClic]

Great tutorial and very convincing result ! Technically to make it even more accurate you should add an inner falloff, as gravity near the horizon slows time down and hence creates an inner redshift

[AustinThomasFilms]

Honestly, this is incredible and the process is much simpler than I thought it would be. You really deserve more subs!

[cineblazer]

Chris Nolan: *hires world class astrophysicist to build custom render engine *

Iridesium: hold my pan-galactic gargle-blaster

[DefiniTV]

I have no idea how to use blender, I don’t know why I’m here, I am still watching, Thanks late night YouTube

[ImSamhel]

For everyone who has problems with rendering time and don't want to wait hours:
- Turn down the samples count (128 by default)
- If you're graphics card is better/newer than the CPU than go to Edit - Preferences - Change the device system thingy to CUDA and select the appropriate GPU. Than in the rendering properties of the project you can change the render device to either CPU or GPU.
- Change Tile size to bigger if you're rendering with GPU and lower if you're rendering with the CPU. (16x16, 128x128, 256x256)
I used my GPU with only like 32 samples/pixel and with 256x256 tile size. I hope it helps anyone with rendering issues.

[silentvoice]

"Pretty dense tutorial"
"pretty time consuming process"
"no puns"

if i didnt know any better id say puns were INESCAPABLE here...

[Low-Slide]

For those of you having trouble with the shortcuts not working - Enable the add-on "Node Wrangler" under "Edit" (In the top left corner next to file) ----> Preferences ----> add ons ----> search ----> Node Wrangler

[JustinPerea]

That sarcasm on the actual black hole picture hurt me. That is actually one of the highest resolution photos in existence.

[eriktennyson]

@3:37
If you had trouble creating the "bend" in the accretion disk like I did. Go to the ColorRamp and Divide Math node that are plugged into the Refraction BSDF. He plugs the Color from ColorRamp into the bottom Value in the Divide Node. If you plug the Alpha from ColorRamp into the top Value in the Divide Node it should give the correct affect.

Must be something with the newer versions or I just messed something up somewhere else but this got me the affect we were looking for.

[RegahP]

This is so unnecesary, you showed how to mkae the black hole right in the beginning, just scale the default cube to zero and bam! You just created a singularity! Now just wait for it to suck in the default light and the default camera too

[targard.quantumfrack]

"Today, we are not gonna recreate the super detailed high-resolution image that NASA released" you broke me before the minute mark... lol kudos

[rapideyyemovement]

Can you please make a tutorial on how to animate the flying particles in 14:59

[yungshreddy]

Just a humble suggestion: you might want to try skipping the part where he duplicates the textures in the accretion disk and instead using the density on the principled volume to block out the white part on the opposite side. It was a lot simpler and gives the render a lot more of a dark look.

[machinabuter]

For those who want to know, the music in the intro is : Michele Nobler - Een Tulp in Volendam (Super 8)

[sramaana]

Super in fact you put a completely crazy black hole video, and in fact you absolutely do not show us how to achieve it! very informative, moreover impossible to contact you, you are unreachable.

[alexsindelar]

Me: watches some dude make a black hole in blender at 4 am

Also me: how come im sleep-deprived?