Black holes are visually striking but technically simple in Blender if you break them into layers: core, accretion disk, gravitational lensing, and glow.
A flattened torus with a radial gradient shader. Use high emission on the inner edge, fading to transparent outside. Animate its rotation in opposite directions for upper and lower halves. Black Hole animation in Blender
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Real gravitational lensing requires ray tracing. Fake it with a refractive sphere (IOR ~1.5) surrounding the hole, or use Eevee’s screen space refraction. Black holes are visually striking but technically simple
Use a dark, slightly emissive sphere. Add a noise texture for plasma variations. Black Hole animation in Blender