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THROWBACK THURSDAYS–BLACK HOLE TAMER

I’ve had these drawings for a Power Point slide background sitting around from freshman in undergrad and figured might as well post them. I haven’t done a Throwback Thursday since I got followers so here we go.

This was from a time where I had yet to realize that the black holes’ mouths would be purely space-time, and so I drew them with actual physical teeth and tongues here. I also drew blood coming from the star who got tidally torn apart for some reason.

You can also see the earlier designs for Stella, Cobalt, and Rhodie here. Stella was originally a much darker yellow, before I copped out on the whole “the Sun is actually white” thing and made her a yellowish-white. Cobalt also had granulation, as I had yet to learn that massive stars’ photospheres were radiative. Stella also is shown to blush rosy pink, when I have since realized it would be much funnier if she just got giant sunspots on her cheeks when she was aroused. (I need to get the rosy cheeks off of Rhodie in the character page someday…)

Basically the premise of this was that there is a star who is trying to be like the lion tamer who puts his head in the big cat’s mouth, except said star will do this with a black hole. The text was in the Power Point presentation, but I can give you a synopsis:

Tamer Star: Fellow stars, starlings, and starlets! Today is a great day in galactic HISTORY! You will see for the first time in the Universe, gravity defied! I will tame this savage dark beast!

Cobalt’s thoughts: “This better be good. Cobalt’s only got a few hundred thousand years left.”

Tamer Star: I will stick my head into the maw of this black hole, and I shall return unscathed! It will be a triumph of light over the sinister darkness!

(Black hole wimpers, in pain from its hunger pangs)

Tamer star: All right, then! HERE I JUMP INTO THE UNKNOWN!

(Tamer Star sticks his face into the black hole.)

(Other stars watch in fixated horror as the Tamer Star gets tidally disrupted and his innards splatter everywhere)

After Tamer Star is completely eaten by the black hole:

Stella: “These black hole tamer acts are sorely predictable aren’t they?”

Cobalt: *retches* Cobalt’s just gonna go home and puke his outer layers off.

Rhodie: “I dunno what’s bothering you guys so much.”

(of course she closed her eyes the whole time so what does she know?)

(The original text had Cobalt not referring to himself in the 3rd person, and saying at the end he felt like he was going to puke his core up into a supernova. Rhodie was bragging about how since she’s a red dwarf star, she’ll never have to deal with it.

I changed it slightly because I’ve since made Cobalt’s most characteristic trait his baby-like naiveté. He entered the main sequence too early, but unlike the other O-type stars, he never quite learned how to fake actually being tough and mature. Like a baby he has trouble distinguishing himself from the rest of the world, so he has some difficulty with first person words.

And also because puking your core into a supernova makes no sense.)

#astronomy #astrophysics #stars #o-type star #g-type star #m-type star #tidal disruption #stellar black hole #black hole #old art #outdated art #throwback thursday

March 2015 50x40 centimeters. (19.6" x 15.7")

An M-Type star sets over the alien landscape of some faraway planet near a blue globular cluster.

#M-type star #globular cluster #ice lake #alien landscape #Dawn

Perfect sunset forever.

This planet has one hemisphere always facing to its sun (A dim, red and not-so-hot M-Type star). This image is from the border between the endless day and the eternal night. It's a perfect sunset that will last (almost) forever, since M-types have a long main-sequence time.