{"id":188998,"date":"2024-05-09T11:25:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T16:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/plunge-into-a-black-hole-with-nasas-new-immersive-visualization-w-video"},"modified":"2024-05-09T11:25:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T16:25:27","slug":"plunge-into-a-black-hole-with-nasas-new-immersive-visualization-w-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/plunge-into-a-black-hole-with-nasas-new-immersive-visualization-w-video","title":{"rendered":"Plunge into a Black Hole with NASA\u2019s new immersive visualization (w\/video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>Ever wonder what happens when you fall into a black hole? Now, thanks to a new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer, viewers can plunge into the event horizon, a black hole\u2019s point of no return.<\/p>\n<p>In this visualization of a flight toward a supermassive black hole, labels highlight many of the fascinating features produced by the effects of general relativity along the way. Produced on a NASA supercomputer, the simulation tracks a camera as it approaches, briefly orbits, and then crosses the event horizon \u2014 the point of no return \u2014 of a monster black hole much like the one at the center of our galaxy. (Video: NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center\/J. Schnittman and B. Powell) <\/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 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 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>Ever wonder what happens when you fall into a black hole? Now, thanks to a new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer, viewers can plunge into the event horizon, a black hole\u2019s point of no return. In this visualization of a flight toward a supermassive black hole, labels highlight many of the fascinating features [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2229,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-mathematics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188998","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=188998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}