As the developers and team
at Supermassive Games talk about the videogame in the interview, the edit of the video makes them appear to move quickly and unnaturally, highlighting the creepy tension one should expect from a VR horror experience.
On this edition of the Scoreboard Spotlight, we look
at a supermassive Bases Loaded blowout, an amazing perfect score on a certain version of Tetris, and more!
Before Until Dawn the group
at Supermassive Games had titles such as «Start the Party» and «Dr.. Who: The Eternity Clock» under its belt.
Particular highlights included: Brenda Romero's inspiring talk «Mother, Woman, Girl: A Lifetime in Games»; Warren Spector meeting fellow Ion Storm alumni John Romero over Skype backstage — pictured; the Guardian interview panels on the Wednesday and Thursday, with Keith Stuart and Jordan Erica Webber (pictured at the top of this feature); Gary Napper
at Supermassive describing the moment a tough American bro was reduced to a gibbering wreck after playing VR; discovering Seb «Snake Pass» Liese from Sumo owned two snakes names «Solid» and «Liquid»; and the Edge Presents interview on - stage with writer Ben Maxwell and John Romero — pictured.
The Inpatient is an upcoming psychological survival horror game developed by the talented team over
at Supermassive Games.
Hi, my name is Will Byles and I'm the Executive Creative Director for Until Dawn over
at Supermassive Games.
VR is something we are very excited about
at Supermassive Games.
Not exact matches
Eventually, in 10 - 100 quintillion years, these stellar remnants will either have escaped their galaxy's pull, or will have spiraled into the
supermassive black hole
at the center.
Yes, we have the telescopes to measure the positions of stars orbiting the
supermassive black hole located
at the center of our galaxy.
A
supermassive one lurks
at the heart of every galaxy — and yet still no one can work out what happens when matter is swallowed by a black hole
Meanwhile a project called the Event Horizon Telescope aims to use radio observatories scattered around Earth to image the
supermassive black hole
at the center of the Milky Way.
Supermassive J0100 +2802 sits
at the center of an active galaxy, called a quasar, 12.8 billion light - years away.
A
supermassive black hole, like the one illustrated above, lurks
at the center of our galaxy, deceptively quiet.
Observations using ESO's Very Large Telescope have revealed stars forming within powerful outflows of material blasted out from
supermassive black holes
at the cores of galaxies.
The group observed the colossal winds of material — or outflows — that originate near the
supermassive black hole
at the heart of the pair's southern galaxy, and have found the first clear evidence that stars are being born within them [1].
The
supermassive black hole
at the centre of NGC 5195 has a mass equivalent to 19 million Suns.
Almost all galaxies have
supermassive black holes
at their centres.
Powerful radiation from
supermassive black holes
at the center of most large galaxies creates winds that can blow gas out of the galaxies, halting star formation.
The image shows the X-ray and H - alpha arcs, as well as the radio outflows from the
supermassive black hole
at the centre of NGC 5195.
Powerful radio jets from the
supermassive black hole
at the center of the galaxy are creating giant radio bubbles (blue) in the ionized gas surrounding the galaxy.
5 million mph The approximate speed
at which scientists observed a
supermassive black hole, roughly 8 billion light - years away from Earth, hurtling through space.
That's how NuSTAR recently identified two gas - enshrouded
supermassive black holes, located
at the centres of nearby galaxies.
Observations of stellar motion show that there is a
supermassive black hole
at its core.
Astronomers
at the University of Southampton are using X-ray vision to reveal
supermassive black holes hidden beneath thick veils of interstellar gas in our cosmic neighbourhood.
As matter falls toward the
supermassive black hole
at the galaxy's center, some of it is accelerated outward
at nearly the speed of light along jets pointed in opposite directions.
And a neutron star nestling up next to a black hole is a plausible setup: There's one orbiting the
supermassive black hole
at the center of the Milky Way.
But around a
supermassive black hole, objects zip around so fast that crashes would happen
at up to 1000 kilometres per second, pulverising the colliding objects.
At the Milky Way's heart, stars circle a
supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A *, which contains about 3.7 million times as much mass as our sun.
At the other extreme, galaxies harbor
supermassive black holes millions or even billions of times more massive.
«The bottom line is that you're guaranteed to select
at least one local
supermassive black hole binary.»
Similar
supermassive black holes are thought to exist
at the centre of every galaxy.
IF OUR best sign yet of dark matter is what it seems, then the
supermassive black hole
at the centre of our galaxy is a complex beast.
NASA's Fermi space telescope has seen signs of such photons around the
supermassive black hole
at the centre of the Milky Way, where dark matter is expected to cluster.
«Galaxy mergers are common, and we think there are many galaxies harboring binary
supermassive black holes that we should be able to detect,» said Joseph Lazio, one of Taylor's co-authors, also based
at JPL.
«The gravitational waves from these
supermassive black hole binary mergers are the most powerful in the universe,» says study lead author Chiara Mingarelli, a research fellow
at the Center for Computational Astrophysics
at the Flatiron Institute in New York City.
For many aspects of the simulation, researchers can start their calculations
at a fundamental, or ab initio, level with no need for preconceived input data, but processes that are less understood — such as star formation and the growth of
supermassive black holes — need to be informed by observation and by making assumptions that can simplify the deluge of calculations.
A cosmic coincidence hints that high - energy neutrinos and superfast cosmic rays both come from the
supermassive black hole
at the centre of the galaxy
At the centre of a galaxy 3.8 billion light years away, a
supermassive black hole was devouring a star that had strayed too close, tearing it apart to spark a gargantuan swirling firework.
The conclusion that
supermassive black holes can grow, from TDEs and perhaps other means,
at rates above those corresponding to the Eddington limit has important implications.
In time, the nearby Andromeda galaxy will hit the Milky Way, and the
supermassive black holes
at each galaxy's center will form a duo that future observers can scrutinize.
Over the past several decades, though, astronomers have realized that black holes are not so unusual after all:
Supermassive ones, millions or billions of times as hefty as the sun, seem to reside
at the center of most, if not all, galaxies.
At the site of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, for example, she says astronomers routinely observe what looks like interstellar material disappearing without a trac
At the site of the
supermassive black hole
at the center of the Milky Way, for example, she says astronomers routinely observe what looks like interstellar material disappearing without a trac
at the center of the Milky Way, for example, she says astronomers routinely observe what looks like interstellar material disappearing without a trace.
«While we don't yet know what dark matter is, we do know it interacts with the rest of the universe through gravity, which means it must accumulate around
supermassive black holes,» said Jeremy Schnittman, an astrophysicist
at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Most large galaxies we see have
supermassive black holes
at their centres.
This composite image shows the motion of the dusty cloud G2 as it closes in on, and then passes, the
supermassive black hole
at the centre of the Milky Way.
The objects causing these low - frequency ripples — such as orbiting
supermassive black holes
at the centers of distant galaxies — would be different from the higher frequency ripples, emitted by collisions of much smaller black holes, that have so far been detected on Earth.
«It's the first time that general relativity is really tested around a
supermassive black hole,» says Aurélien Hees
at the University of California, Los Angeles.
These ultra-compact dwarfs are around 0.1 percent the size of the Milky Way, yet they host
supermassive black holes that are bigger than the black hole
at the center of our own galaxy,» marvels Ahn.
Supermassive black holes have a mass of more than 1 million suns, and are thought to be
at the center of all big galaxies.
The only way to make the quasars so bright, astronomers believe, is for
supermassive black holes to devour gas
at the hearts of large galaxies.