Earth vs. Black Hole & Moon vs. Earth like in Moonfall

Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

Development reel of the recently released simulation video of a path-traced black hole based on the gravitational lensing effect made in Blender. Earth has been added merely for entertainment purposes, it's not a scientific simulation. Final video: youtu.be/g9bhaE7UjH8

Technically the black hole consists of stacked spherical meshes with different radii to serve es volumetric ray intersection samples that would modify the light path depending on the spatial force field strength. To keep render times low a maximum of 40 transmission bounces per pixel were targeted at the cost of some accuracy. The video took two weeks to render on a GTX 1080.

Simulated in Blender + Fracture Modifier, rendered with Cycles.

Music: youtube.com/savfkmusic - Why? (CC BY 4.0)

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