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August 10, 2012
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This is why you don't want to live anywhere near a black hole, or any other kind of old, dense star.

You'd have more and more time to do what you like the closer you get to the event horizon and you would have something beautiful to look at, but your planet wouldn't last much longer, unfortunately.
    

COMPOSITION: Entirely composed and painted in PS (except for the asteroids which I created in Lightwave using particles and hypervoxels) over the course of roughly one and half days.

ORIGINAL SIZE: 22x9 in. 143 layers.
    

Comments and critique welcome as always and by all means, if you feel like it, do buy a print. ;)

Thank you to *TreeClimber for inspiring me. :cuddle:
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*MartinSilvertant Sep 23, 2012  Professional General Artist
Beautiful and fascinating image.

I gave your statement "You'd have more and more time to do what you like the closer you get to the event horizon" some thought though and I actually doubt that's true. I would think time affects all matter including the speed of your neurons, so effectively you would be acting slower rather than live in a slower world. I might be wrong though. But before such an effect would take place I think the atmosphere is taken away from the planet so you would suffocate before any funny business would show up. Still, it would be a spectacular sight in those last moments.
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=overseer Sep 23, 2012   Digital Artist
Well, it's a relative statement; literally. ;)

It is believed in quantum physics that the higher the gravity gets, especially around a black hole, and the closer you get to it, that even time will eventually slow down. It's time dilation. Obviously it all depends from which point of view you're describing a phenomenon. I didn't mean the statement entirely seriously though, rather more in funny context.
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*MartinSilvertant Sep 23, 2012  Professional General Artist
I understand, but I think it's a misconception that you would have more time to observe it all. Of course from an outsider it would look like an object falling in takes an awful lot of time. I believe at the event horizon the object would even come to a standstill and gradually become fainter instead of actually moving.
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=overseer Sep 23, 2012   Digital Artist
We wouldn't really know for sure until we'd experience it; and if we did, whoever it happened to wouldn't be able to tell. So, it's all theory. Who knows for sure?
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*MartinSilvertant Sep 23, 2012  Professional General Artist
I guess indeed we would need observational data, however as far as black holes are understood I have more trust in what the (theoretical) physicists think will happen than my own speculations. You're right though. I can imagine no one knows for sure.

I wonder if we manage to make a warp drive if it would be possible to send a camera into a black hole. Not that it would last beyond the event horizon but at least we could see what happens on the way to that area.
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=overseer Sep 23, 2012   Digital Artist
You'd have to protect that camera from such an intense gravitational field and energy expulsion that I very much doubt that would be possible. Plus, again with the time dilation. Any signals sent back would never leave the event horizon.
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*MartinSilvertant Sep 23, 2012  Professional General Artist
That's why I say it couldn't pass the even horizon. I suppose an ultra strong camera could potentially come near the Schwarzschild radius though.
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Mood: Wow! =Topas2012 Aug 21, 2012  Hobbyist Interface Designer
great work...
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=overseer Aug 21, 2012   Digital Artist
Thank you very much.
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Mood: Joy =Topas2012 Aug 21, 2012  Hobbyist Interface Designer
most welcome!
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