BOYS ITS HERE

WE FINALLY GOT SPACE VACUUM IN PHOTO

Woah!!

Was watching that as well! Pretty fucking amazing!

*smiles in infinity*

That is both beautiful and absolutely terrifying

cool, what is that glowing thing? and how can you make a photo of nothing?

That's a pretty bad quality. Here, take a better one:

And without the speaker, but with more blackness around (because I used it as my new YouTube banner):

My friend was next to me earlier and said “look at this picture of a black hole.” I thought he said butthole, this was much more interesting lmao

When I saw this for the first time I thought it was just not fully loaded progressive JPEG lol xD

Colonoscopy?

Suspiciously resembles a pixelated version of the eye of sauron

@Jilano I’d love to throw a planet to it and a star but first planet

@jschmold I did colour-pick inside the black area and also considered making it a gradient, but that also wouldn't have completely removed the border, because it's a screenshot of the stream, filmed from the image projected onto their wall. I hope they'll release the original for download soon.

@Fabian protip: radial alpha gradient.

MURPH

@Jilano haha yeah then it would “suck”

Mordor

@careless I can almost hear the main theme instrumental

Vacuum? There is a lot of mass in that photo.

@Jilano That's massive!!

Present this picture to a client and they might ask for a better resolution with the budget of a cheap plastic binocular.

Space's own vacuum cleaner

@Root That wouldn't help either, the border is irregularly coloured.

But here is the original, it was published by now:

@Fabian So extend your radial gradient's beginning out into the blackness beyond the accretion disk.

@Root So you're saying I should overwrites part of the original image with a different shade of black to improve the transition?

@Fabian Basically?

0% alpha (opaque) in a circle from the center until the outer edge of the accretion disk (the first bit of black past the orange glow). From there, increase the alpha in a gradient until it's completely transparent some distance out.

Now place the resulting image in a black background. All of the dark greys in the image background now fade smoothly into black.

(Though the effect would be better if you brush the transparency/mask yourself in photoshop because of the flared sides.)