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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.
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Correct, and the black disk that flashes briefly in the video was a software bug in an earlier version of Google Earth that has since been fixed. Plus, if you notice, the black disk covers part of the north of Greenland - it was a software error.