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Originally Posted by Phtha
About google earth,
that is not a black hole but spherical UV maps that are placed on the sphere in
order to texture it. When uv mapping a sphere it is impossible to get a seemless
uv layout without those stretch marks on the poles. You will see the same thing on the other
side of the globe.
They could have uv mapped the globe/sphere a little differently to get rid of
those streches, but it would have made texturing a literal blackmary for the
people who work on it.
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At least one of those videos has to be a fake. It looks too much like someone doctored the image to add in a black hole.