The black hole is one of the most fascinating phenomenon in space. I mean, it’s the super-dense hulk of a dead star whose gravitational pull is so intense that not even light can escape it. Nobody knows what it’s really like to be sucked into one of these things (a favorite danger of science fiction authors), but University of Stuttgart researchers Thomas Mueller and Daniel Weiskopf have come up with a video program that simulates the very experience of disappearing into a hole in space.
The simulation uses real data from space, with the real position of 118,000 stars. If you wanted to see what it would look like if Orion passed near a black hole, or what it’d look like to disappear into one yourself, the video simulator allows you to do just that. Every little detail, from the event horizon to the Doppler effect of light being pulled from the stars, is accounted for. I love it when science gives us new toys to play with, don’t you?
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