{"id":188883,"date":"2024-05-08T09:25:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T14:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/new-nasa-black-hole-visualization-takes-viewers-beyond-the-brink"},"modified":"2024-05-08T09:25:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T14:25:32","slug":"new-nasa-black-hole-visualization-takes-viewers-beyond-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/new-nasa-black-hole-visualization-takes-viewers-beyond-the-brink","title":{"rendered":"New NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond the Brink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/chhcwk4-esM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople often ask about this, and simulating these difficult-to-imagine processes helps me connect the mathematics of relativity to actual consequences in the real universe,\u201d said Jeremy Schnittman, an astrophysicist at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/goddard\/\">NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center<\/a> in Greenbelt, Maryland, who created the visualizations. \u201cSo I simulated two different scenarios, one where a camera \u2014 a stand-in for a daring astronaut \u2014 just misses the event horizon and slingshots back out, and one where it crosses the boundary, sealing its fate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPeople often ask about this, and simulating these difficult-to-imagine processes helps me connect the mathematics of relativity to actual consequences in the real universe,\u201d said Jeremy Schnittman, an astrophysicist at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who created the visualizations. \u201cSo I simulated two different scenarios, one where a camera \u2014 a stand-in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}