Create a Black Hole in Blender - Iridesium

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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
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[@on3jp]

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

[@atern2878]

I see what you did there

[@zentrocs]

nice reference

[@edwardberryman2322]

Every time I use my graphics card my pc crashes...

[@Rachaer]

nice one

[@Reyzha7]

can you push it to 120?

[@WaterShowsProd]

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

[@foxnadir]

Or just feed it to that Gargantua when it's ready

[@terner1234]

That turns it into a black hole

[@OrangeC7]

@@terner1234 30 second video: - reduce default cube to a point - it becomes a black hole - you get 99% through rendering - your computer implodes and begins sucking in it's surroundings

[@terner1234]

@@OrangeC7 a black hole rendering a black hole

[@Caspar__]

voila, a black hole

[@ojask9916]

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.

[@chickencurry7642]

Yup...and they fed in the actual mathematical data in that render engine and it automatically gave that black hole effect but the visual effects guys tweaked it a little bit to make it look more interesting.....

[@epicjonny155]

@@chickencurry7642 what did it looked like before it was tweaked

[@samk9632]

@@epicjonny155 I believe the tweaking was getting rid of the shifted thin circle around the black hole. when a black hole is spinning fast, the black hole looks like it isnt in the center of the accretion disk like you think it would. The VFX guys thought that that might be confusing for some, so they changed it. And of course there is always some lens flares and some other visually appealing stuff.

[@creativeyt3982]

ya instead of making concept art they asked a phsicist to give them how it would actually look like and just entered the numbers in their render engine

[@alfathmuqoddas6986]

They make freaking astrophysics research paper out of that movie by Kip Thorne, the whole movie is just post doctoral research

[@abhipatel4117]

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

[@caspexx]

"dense tutorial"

[@nibblrrr7124]

yeah i don't really kerr for puns either

[@StraveTube]

@@nibblrrr7124 Haha yeah I totally, uh... tolman-oppenheimer-volkoff puns, too.

[@nibblrrr7124]

@@StraveTube ❤️

[@ArielEduardoAlba]

He a-void-ed them at all costs

[@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

[@zeriphio9379]

Beh tiens :)

[@DEADMANPLAYS]

i read that as redshit fml

[@2gouv]

@@zeriphio9379 C'est dingue ça

[@marcbresson6548]

Oh, on vous retrouve partout @ScienceClic

[@Lil_Erection]

Nerd

[@lvbboi9]

Time to make my own Interstellar

[@razeezar]

In Soviet Russia, Interstellar make its own YOU!!

[@dr.zamanritu9033]

Interstellar: starring LVBBoi

[@ferdraun]

Haha

[@Dylank001]

@@WhiteHawk77 it’s necessary

[@venerexate1841]

Making your own interstellar is not a task for caution.

[@cineblazer]

Chris Nolan: *hires world class astrophysicist to build custom render engine * Iridesium: hold my pan-galactic gargle-blaster

[@timsousa3860]

that actually sounds like discord's patch notes

[@memistcentral2044]

👍

[@povilaslondon]

Easy to replicate after someone else showed how it supposed to look

[@vextormull]

Guess they didn't have Iridesium back then

[@v1nigra3]

Povilas Prokapas exactly what I was going to come and say, a simple thing about art a lot of people don’t understand

[@DefiniTV]

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

[@AustinThomasFilms]

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

[@Brightshadow686]

And much more simpler than in interstellar..

[@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.

[@portiktamas810]

Not if you have a radeon graphics card, than you should enable openCL instead of CUDA.

[@user-ir2fu4cx6p]

@@portiktamas810 Radeon 7 is best card to render on Blender

[@wtechafk34]

i need help how to switch to rendered view? 1:54. tysm

[@grizjan]

@@wtechafk34 hold down z

[@wtechafk34]

@@grizjan got it ty

[@silentvoice4641]

"Pretty dense tutorial" "pretty time consuming process" "no puns" if i didnt know any better id say puns were INESCAPABLE here...

[@dr.zamanritu9033]

Lmao

[@braydensally384]

oh no

[@hamsinidhilip7331]

The next line after hesays no puns- 'Lets start *pulling* stuff together.'

[@SpicyBanditSauce]

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

[@bluebubbles2252]

Life saver

[@TheKakesuJiro]

thank you!

[@pottaamv4594]

still can"t in blender 4.0

[@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

[@maximeteppe7627]

it doesn't work if you don't make it a rigid body with mass though. be careful, if it's under 3000 metric tons it's effect is insufficient. do delete the cube before turning off blender: when I did it went unstable and destroyed my computer and most of my room. i made it out alive and the earth is still here, but my neighbors are not pleased.

[@edwardberryman2322]

Not a black hole... kind of

[@wtechafk34]

i need help, how to switch to rendered view? 1:54.

[@FishPogx]

Wtech AFK Hold z and drag your mouse to rendered

[@wtechafk34]

@@FishPogx OK

[@rohithande9750]

the fact that this video is so well made is itself satisfactory!

[@draconixdust3732]

Loving these space-themed tutorial, good job man👍🏻

[@ZidanTaufiq712]

One render with my computer cost seven years on earth

[@AmanBansil]

heh - I felt that pain

[@elnazshahabi5234]

mine cost 700 years on earth

[@ruthless-gamedev7984]

Way easier than expected, great job

[@scottlee38]

Now this is epic!

[@TheAizwraith]

This is probably the best video I've ever seen on KZbin! Thank you @Iridesium !!

[@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.

[@mohanexperiments9517]

thank you so much!

[@arrhanabad]

bro saving life

[@Dragiero]

So somehow doing the opposite gave me the correct effect. Not sure why, but the fact that you pointed it out helped. Thank you

[@madsvendelboe1920]

I cant do it

[@alexsindelar2063]

Me: watches some dude make a black hole in blender at 4 am Also me: how come im sleep-deprived?

[@gbubs1588]

For some reason, it's 5:48, and I haven't fallen asleep yet

[@vishnurk3107]

I did it guys😍 After 2 years of installing blender, i finally did it😍😍 I deleted the default cube successfully 😍😍😍😍

[@QasimAli-to5lk]

You're such an amateur , I successfully created the almighty..... donut 🍩

[@hogstarful]

@@QasimAli-to5lk I just uninstalled all other 3d applications and just kept blender as default period.

[@justminibanana9128]

are you sure? travel to the centre of the black hole.

[@venerexate1841]

@@justminibanana9128 they shrunk the cube down to zero. It became the singularity.

[@SlingoRyan]

You crushed it ! This is such a good looking and so accessible for the common people whenever the studio which made the black hole in Interstellar had to create a complete algorithm to achieve this effect. Thank you for sharing, I'm gonna dig into your channel and try this stuff, hopefully I can make my own !

[@indycinema]

This was the perfect speed, especially during materials. Thank you!

[@thechannelitrollwith1645]

lol i just watched someone else’s tutorial from a while back and immediately thought “I wish Iridesium made an updated version”. Little did I know you were probably working on it in that exact moment lol. thanks!

[@thechannelitrollwith1645]

It wasn't working in 2.83 quite the same so I opened it in 2.87.2 like you and it still didn't look the same. I'll figure it out but I noticed a massive difference in moving around the viewport with the volume between the two. 2.83 has broken all chances of rendering smoke sim animations that aren't imported VDBs (massive bug that hardly anyone has said anything about) but the overall volume performance is noticeably faster. just wanted to put it out there.

[@JustinPerea]

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

[@ShiroiAkumaSama]

Your stuff always looks awesome, thanks for sharing the knowledge with us.

[@joshpolman201]

One of the best tutorials I've ever done... and I've done thousands. Well done sir!

[@targard.quantumfrack6854]

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

[@Regoliste]

Man Iridesium you are a legend with the unique techniques you bring to the table of 3D. Such a high-quality tutorial presented that could honesty put the blackhole artwork produced to be film standard for such an efficient amount of free effort. You've inspired me to make renders beyond anything. You are seriously underrated and even then you have great interactions with your community like on discord. Hope to see you be one of the big ones soon.

[@TheJorgeb]

From now on, you are my god. Thank you for creating this tutorial!

[@davideblonda6159]

Is scary how chill this video is.

[@machinabuter]

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

[@braydenwilcomb2238]

Samy Zegaou than you so much I’ve been looking for this forever.

[@MicheleNobler]

Hey, thanks for loving my music! 🙏 The track Is also on Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/2gNODTRpnh9pWZWIkpgbAD?si=nia7uYJ8SWyZkkw6_Se7oQ Feel free to follow me on Spotify for new releases 😉

[@braydenwilcomb2238]

Michele Nobler no problem man, keep up the great work

[@machinabuter]

@@MicheleNobler that's a masterpiece my dear, so much emotion, thank you for this creation

[@MicheleNobler]

@@machinabuter 🙏🙏🙏

[@taz4o95]

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

[@pinewoodlone]

Yes that would be great

[@quinnfeezy1]

Awesome sauce. This is gonna be dope to make.

[@Hate94Neu]

Thats Really Amazing! incredible Dude!

[@DeepakTheDevastator]

I was literally watching Interstellar yesterday..And just when they take tha tspace station near the gargantua..i thought if only i could make black holes like gargantua in blender...And today your tutorial pops up...Thanks so much man !

[@basedguns8218]

Google is always listening....

[@inklazer3447]

@@basedguns8218 Yup

[@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.

[@samuelwernisch4478]

I've been waiting so long for this tut.

[@BlenderPlosion]

This is very beautiful, Iridesium! Subscribed :)

[@JonatasAm]

Yeah, this got really nice! I just was waiting in the end to add some "doppler effect" on the accretion disk. Where the light spin towards you (the camera) gets brighter, and weaker when spinning away That would be a really great update on this. And I think you could fake it with a gradient mapped to screen/window dimming the brightness, should affect only the sides of the disk though, when looking parallel to it

[@dadisproud]

15:10 I love the transition right there I was like: "wow wtf was that" New sub bro 👍

[@OrangeC7]

That was pretty epic ngl

[@457Deniz457]

Omg what an awesome and well done tutorial ! Nice and thanks ! 😊

[@stefanguiton]

Excellent tutorial! Love it

[@Alex_3D]

Just beautiful ! 🔥

[@marc-antoinedeke-mangeon3617]

Alex dans le game d'Iridesium

[@marc-antoinedeke-mangeon3617]

Trop bien 👍😂

[@Alex_3D]

Ahah je kiff ce qu’il fait 😂👌🏻

[@marc-antoinedeke-mangeon3617]

@@Alex_3D Ouais mais j'aime bien aussi le contenu de ta chaîne KZbin. Tu expliques très bien.

[@Alex_3D]

Marc-Antoine Déké-Mangeon Merci beaucoup 😉🙏🏻

[@Vanisher]

"a pretty dense tutorial" I see what you did there

[@moomin2162]

Finally a good black hole tutorial. Thank you!

[@d3mons593]

Really great tutorial. Very interesting, and you explaining everything helps.

[@LostSound]

I just wanted to say before I get any farther in this tutorial that the shot from 0:26 to 0:31 looks so beautiful. Also from the look of the comments I can't wait to not use my computer for the next 10 years :)

[@braydensally384]

same, MacBooks are dogs*it

[@LostSound]

@@braydensally384 I actually have a PC but it’s oldie from about 7 or so years ago at this point. It semi runs well and can still do some 3d and video stuff but strength wise it’s an ant compared to what people have nowadays

[@braydensally384]

@@LostSound yea but like mac books are just terrible

[@LostSound]

@@braydensally384 Yeah I figured lol, it's why I've stayed with pc's instead of investing on a mac, plus they're stupid expensive

[@jojolafrite90]

Like every tutorial, he just cuts and some setups are made during the cut, then we can see things have changed but he never addressed what he did. Fortunately, it wasn't very hard to replicate. Oh wait, no I can't replicate since I can't know in what he put that color node after 2:50. That was nothing, actually. But that is what pissed me off with school all my life.

[@uberdevo]

anyone figure out what exactly he did at 2:50???

[@elokibu]

@@uberdevo Did you figure it out?

[@Oth3rsideProductions]

make sure you have node wrangler turned on in the addons (it's included with blender). then do ctrl+shift+click on the color ramp node.

[@packardslam1322]

Man ! This is awesome !

[@paraclete770]

when u go step by step, very easy to follow, thanks for that!

[@kunalkashyap863]

Me: Time to make my interstellar My PC: Uh huh....

[@panavkaushik9898]

If anyone is having an issue at 2:50 here is the solution Plug the color ramp color option to material out put's surface 😀

[@KdotBlonded]

YOU're a fking legend thx👌

[@Excelsior1937]

Thank you! I have no idea why in the world he just skipped over the part where he fixes the black blob 😑

[@panavkaushik9898]

Your welcome

[@Chicken_Soy]

thanks

[@panavkaushik9898]

@@Chicken_Soy ur welcome

[@kenkioqqo]

I don't know how I discovered your channel, but am sure glad I did. You, sir, are on a whole nother level. I'm excited to start learning all these skills that you're sharing with the community.

[@ingridsorensenofficial]

I love this! Thank you!

[@dumpsky]

suggestion: red/blue wavelength shift. horizontal color ramp. more red where disc rotates away from camera, more blue where disc rotates toward camera.

[@EditGenius_PS]

Me done with the thing: Yeah hopefully it will look good! My computer: **Hey pal, I'm tired so It'll take 37 hours to render.**

[@-admiraljarl-2809]

'this little maneuver is gonna cost us 51 years'

[@chintanvadgama4464]

Please share it, this guy needs to be with the top blender tutorial makers!!! Really great content!!!

[@andresbrand9221]

Thank you !! Awesome video!

[@they_dont_know_me_son6663]

No ones probably gonna help me out or anything but I guess I'll still say it. At the time, 2:48, you skipped a part, like how did you get that black part in the middle fading out with white? Somebody please help me :c

[@maxgh1234]

a "dense" tutorial, lets start "pulling" things thogether:)

[@Land-Shark]

Super cool! And you made it so easy to understand, too. Thank you! :)

[@johanneshernehult2794]

Beautiful intro :D

[@isaamthalhath4359]

The beginning is filled with puns lol: This tutorial is pretty dense We will create an attractive black hole Pulling stuff together

[@2k7u]

Can you do the same tutorial on blender 2.90? Volumetrics seem to have changed in some way that this method for acretion disk seems to not work properly :(

[@animatedsurvivors8792]

Yea man

[@Skirbiy]

I did this on 2.90 and it was basically the same, just the guis change a little bit!

[@Ilyas-he9di]

@@Skirbiy i don't why but for 7:00 my cube is way more darker than his one, which almost white

[@spacii112]

@@Skirbiy Cap

[@Skirbiy]

@@spacii112 make sure your not on 2.93 or something, or you have to figure it out.

[@abbadobabba1924]

Finally a new space video.

[@DanDanceMotion]

What a beautiful!!

[@PixellateYT]

Interstellar hire an physicist for black hole Iridesium: I am gonna destroy this man whole career

[@diogo763]

How does one get the knowledge to find a way to this on his own

[@DrunkenUFOPilot]

Lots of practice, lots of fooling around, lots of watching how-to video by others, and then some more fooling around.

[@cupcakemcsparklebutt9051]

@@DrunkenUFOPilot hmmmm

[@AyushSharma-hx9sw]

@@DrunkenUFOPilot "I fooled around and fell in love"

[@leem___]

That was a pretty Epic Intro

[@deepthoughtsradio]

Beautiful work.

[@siggi1300]

u should defnitely try to explain every step u doin in the nodes section..

[@knifidoors]

practise in blender and you'll understand anything without explanation. And this tutorial, looks like, not for beginners.

[@gdog8170]

@@knifidoors i am a beginner by doing few pauses i managed it but in blender 2.83 there was no stepsize but the option "view port" and "step rate render" was like the same as the step size but one for the render and one for the view port

[@seanbud]

@@gdog8170 ahh thank you i just got to that part and was wondering

[@gdog8170]

@@seanbud np

[@LeakingCode]

Hold my intergalactic OJ.

[@stealth2951]

You have no idea how many weeks trying to get this effect. I got close, but not like this. Thank you, fantastic video. Finally I can get what I want.

[@JonathanNelson-nelsonj3]

Wow! That is really cool! I have been wondering how something like this could be done but haven't had the time to sit down and do it. Nice job!

[@MatheusLB2009]

"Denoising this is impossible" No... it is necessary.

[@eggyrepublic]

How to make black hole: 1) add a cube 2) add rigid body physics 3) press S, 0

[@Enderplays12]

Dang that looks beautiful.

[@aime_c]

MIND = BLOWN.

[@jorgettor4937]

Me: clics render °>° Mi potato pc: *"so you've chosen death"*

[@KonnBonn23]

How did you get the "Dust clouds" Above the disk at 15:23?

[@dogestudios82]

Thanks for the great tutorial!

[@ehodovic]

Such an epic intro

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

sadly this is outdated and doesn’t work anymore :(

[@boris5408]

Hey! question: at the Photon Sphere section, my blue ring is on the outside of the black hole, rather than on the inside like yours! what did I do wrong?

[@boris5408]

I will also mention that i have blend set to .9

[@chrisness8382]

Same problem here.

[@carbarn3081]

Just increase the black part and make it big enough to fit the ring in

[@stark_aswin]

Really stunning

[@markham_bd]

amazing, good work!)

[@layrik-7951]

7:58 you connected the viewer to the overlay how? edit: i found how to do it. its an add-on and the name of it: "node: node wrangler"

[@localhost144]

i feel so dumb right now :D Speedy Gonzales @ work

[@Herzfeld10]

holy shit that intro is amazing !!

[@majeric]

FYI, I adore that you've index your video. I'm subscribing and liking for that alone!

[@doriflow_engine]

Thank you so much for the tutorial. Here is my animated version of the black hole: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZKcq4xmq6idnJo All the shader nodes used to create the black hole are so creative. I also included the actual sound of the two black holes collided and recorded by the LIGO center. Enjoy!

[@nickthebass8695]

ngl I thought this guy was gonna make a black hole in a smoothie blender.

[@micmacha]

I swear I learn something new about Blender all the time. I'd never even heard of the Layer Weight node. Thank you!

[@jaydenbertram7185]

These videos are so so cool and useful

[@ImSamhel]

ctrl t does nothing to me :=( EDIT: just enabled node wrangler xD nvm

[@prodbyven]

how do you enable node wrangler? i am having the same problem

[@MemesButSpicy]

@@prodbyven go to edit > preferences > add-ons and type Node Wrangler and enable it

[@MrsSheerin]

Yo you just stopped my brain go crack, I meant you solved my problem🤭

[@mackenmatsch2420]

@@MemesButSpicy U r my live saver! Tjanks

[@modos2126]

4:37 *Megalovania starts playing*

[@sayandipdhali8343]

The intro was really epic.

[@Satoshinork]

Oh my god!!! Good work