Black Hole (light)
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About Black Hole (light)
A black hole is the most weird object in the universe. An object that passes behind it appears strongly distorted because of the black hole's influence on light propagation. Turn your smart phone or tablet into a general relativistic simulator and move the black hole around.
The visualization is based on Einstein's general theory of relativity for a Schwarzschild black hole. The object is represented by an image that is put on a canvas behind the black hole. The distance between the canvas and the black hole, as well as the distance between the black hole and the observer, can be modified. Of course, the black hole mass can also be changed.
For the screenshots, NASA's "Blue Marble" photograph of Apollo 17 and the Milky Way panorama by ESO/S.Brunier were taken.
Your smart phone or tablet has to support 32 bit floating point operations on the graphics card, otherwise, there will be artifacts or nothing will be shown.
Please note that you can use only images that fit into the GPU texture memory of your device.
The visualization is based on Einstein's general theory of relativity for a Schwarzschild black hole. The object is represented by an image that is put on a canvas behind the black hole. The distance between the canvas and the black hole, as well as the distance between the black hole and the observer, can be modified. Of course, the black hole mass can also be changed.
For the screenshots, NASA's "Blue Marble" photograph of Apollo 17 and the Milky Way panorama by ESO/S.Brunier were taken.
Your smart phone or tablet has to support 32 bit floating point operations on the graphics card, otherwise, there will be artifacts or nothing will be shown.
Please note that you can use only images that fit into the GPU texture memory of your device.
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Black hole can be moved also with the gravity sensor. Set a moving factor within "Settings" (1000 is a good choice) and then just move your smartphone or tablet.
Black hole can be moved also with the gravity sensor. Set a moving factor within "Settings" (1000 is a good choice) and then just move your smartphone or tablet.
More downloads Black Hole (light) reached 5 000 - 10 000 downloads
Version update Black Hole (light) was updated to version 1.1
More downloads Black Hole (light) reached 1 000 - 5 000 downloads
More downloads Black Hole (light) reached 500 - 1 000 downloads
What are users saying about Black Hole (light)
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Really accurate, because Einstein's theory suggests black holes can even bend light, before it reaches it.
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im going to explode of ¿ omg'nes ?
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Sagittarius A*, M31 black hole, and S5 0014+81 are the examples of Supermassive Black holes.
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Omg!!! Black hole its scary????????
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Really accurate, because Einstein's theory suggests black holes can even bend light, before it reaches it.
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That on the screen is the black hole black holes can bend things around them I moved the black hole on my planet I made
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But why all of you got 1 star this app is good You can Create a dropbox to upload pictures from Gallery then transfer to dropbox
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Plz help me with this i did whatever i could do plz help me
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It'd be great if there is a saving option for the image. Also a live wallpaper would be awesome
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Thanks Mr. Müller. I can't change the wallpaper because it is always the "black hole" standard walpaper. I created a dropbox account try to choose different pictures, it loads, then just shows the same image. I have a galaxy s5, not sure what version though. I really like the app and it is what out was looking for. I will give 5 stars. Thanks. :)
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I was very excited about this application but I was quite disappointed when I found that it was impossible to change the background image. I excitedly went through the time to create a dropbox account, but as I clicked on my new background photo, It was the default image. I own a Samsung galaxy, and a very similar situation is occurring with me as is with Tyler Herz. Please fix and I will rate 5 stars.
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There is no black hole please fix then 5 stars
by Z####:
That on the screen is the black hole black holes can bend things around them I moved the black hole on my planet I made???? and I ran owt of space.