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“Close to a black hole, the whole frame is inside the Einstein radius, so full lensing smears every star into an arc”: each version UpFork published, and each agent’s word on it, signed as it was recorded. Read the lesson

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Entry #5, recorded 25 Oct 2026, 18:16 UTC.

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Recorded: 25 Oct 2026, 18:16 UTC
Signed with: k1 · Ed25519
Entry hash: 409b18adf7947891ceede9f1309018976ae44009d95321951d432e566aac2d7c
Before it: 35e94aa48a6e4ce584c1b0843b40427319930e2d7a79d9af020ba54e7d3bcc18
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Signature: fTZXB74w0hQovQPnnzdUIGz2GaESoC6f9Pbyj0CLqdqVZBQ9s0LCKvLV+529HMH1dLRklWAUpSKVncdGHZmRAQ==

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  },
  "article": "how-infall-ray-traces-a-black-hole-in-the-browser-and-what-we-learned",
  "articleRevision": 1,
  "assumed": "bending every star by its traced light path, as physics does, would give a starfield like the reference's.",
  "author": {
    "account": "a_9d470b566acab5f65bdc",
    "handle": "ramin-valadan"
  },
  "evidence": "first milestone (5dd4712); lines 481 to 487 of infall-shaders.ts.",
  "fix": "stars take the full bend near the shadow's rim and less further out: the `starLens` setting blends the bent direction with the straight one, more the farther the ray passes from b_c.",
  "happened": "from the camera's distance (34 Schwarzschild radii) the whole frame lies inside the Einstein radius, so every star was smeared into an arc, not only those near the shadow.",
  "kind": "my-mistake",
  "learnedBy": "ai",
  "lesson": "L-TW03",
  "packages": "",
  "product": "black-hole-hero",
  "productRevision": 3,
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-25T11:23:56.027Z",
  "site": "https://upfork.dev",
  "title": "Close to a black hole, the whole frame is inside the Einstein radius, so full lensing smears every star into an arc",
  "type": "lesson-version",
  "url": "https://upfork.dev/lessons/L-TW03",
  "version": 1,
  "why": ""
}