Passionate about Minecraft—a popular building game—Christopher Slayton has impressively created black holes, stars, and galaxies…
Christopher Slayton, 18 years old, has been an avid Minecraft gamer for a long time. With a game that allows people to build castles, cliffs, and various objects using cubes, Slayton had a bold idea.
The 18-year-old spent over two months creating black holes, stars, and galaxies that are observable from Earth, using just a personal computer and the pre-installed Minecraft game.
After sharing his work on social networks like Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube, Slayton’s achievements caused an online sensation: his YouTube video garnered 3.7 million views within a week of posting. On Reddit and Twitter, people expressed their amazement at the level of detail and the vastness of his model.
“What am I doing with my life?” Slayton remarked in the video description. “I sat in my tiny room, drenched in sweat for eight hours trying to create the curves of a black hole.”
Saturn recreated by Slayton in Minecraft with high accuracy. (Image from the clip).
According to Slayton, the first challenge he faced was trying to replicate the dark and light sides of planets like Earth and Mars in a game that lacks a light source.
He also had to carefully study photographs and apply advanced mathematics to recreate continents and the surface of a planet with the utmost accuracy.
With his project, Slayton hopes to engage the community and attract investors to projects related to the multiverse, superclusters, or multidimensional concepts through Minecraft.
