Me too

Yes, same here. It especially got worse a few years ago when I upgraded my ancient Dell 60Hz 1440p monitor to an LG 144Hz 4K, with things even more crisp and clear and smooth than ever before, there is a real discomfort I have when approaching any of the Black Holes in the simulation.

As I approach a black hole, Sagittarius A* at the center of our galaxy, the music changes and I can't for the life of me fly into or near the event horizon anymore, it's unnerving.

It is literally an abyss or the void. Now there's the recent discovery of an Ultramassive Black Hole in Abell 1201 at 32.7 billion solar masses, which freaks the heck outta me.

it all fake, cool tho

Yeah, when I played Megaton Rainfall I would explore space forever I though it was so cool... Until I saw a black hole, had a actual Panic Attack, was like 3-4 years ago. I still have a fear of black holes.

Black Holes are actually a fairly common phobia, they play a lot on natural anxieties and fears humans tend to have (fear of the dark, fear of predators, claustrophobia) and when the disorientation of warped light gets added in there's a lot of things around them that the human brain does not like dealing with.

There's also the fact that anybody who knows what a black hole actually is, has it baked in to their minds that "if you get too close, there is no known force in nature that will allow you to escape, and you're doomed to get dragged in". So naturally when you intentionally get near one in a game your brain, which is bad at remembering it's a game, will be screaming at you to get away from it lol

black hole vs white hole

I HATE how black holes aren't labeled in the star finder menu, it's just a normal star until...it isn't. But by then, you're too close and it's RIGHT THERE. I nearly can't play this in VR anymore after I ran into one of them a long time ago. It was completely terrifying.

meh, i entered the black hole in the simulation in VR, is not as scary as really i though, maybe in real life.

Bruh if i land on planet close to a Giant Star or a Blackhole it kinda scares me

That sounds like Melanoheliophobia.

Black holes are scary but black holes with accretion disks are way worse.

Originally posted by thegabble:

Black holes are scary but black holes with accretion disks are way worse.

hmm for odd reason i find the normal blackholes scary while i find the disk black holes opposite with no fear instead amazed at the beauty, idk the thought of normal blackholes being so huge and hard to see makes them more terrifying, its like those huge wide tornados in night time and rain wrapped.

I feel the same about black holes. I watched a video where you slowly going towards a black hole, and I did the mistake of skipping a huge chunk because it made me feel anxious. And BOOM! The black hole were almost as big as the screen! Biggest jump scare ever! But that was my own fault though lol

Black holes really are something else, aren't they?

Don't worry--an instinctive fear of the unknown simply means that you're human. Just remember that the vast majority of things that we "know" about the observable universe are entirely theoretical--including black holes.

Originally posted by Adam:

Yeah, when I played Megaton Rainfall I would explore space forever I though it was so cool... Until I saw a black hole, had a actual Panic Attack, was like 3-4 years ago. I still have a fear of black holes.

Dude Megaton's black holes are the WORST, they make like really eerie freakin' droning noises and creepy sounds.