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Jump Into A Black Hole With NASA’s Incredible New Visualization
You can also just fly around it, if you prefer not to visualize oblivion.
If you have ever dreamed of flying into a black hole, but the idea of your body getting spaghettified (yes, this is a real scientific term) into plasma is not appealing, NASA has a solution. “People 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,” astrophysicist Jeremy Schnittman at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, who created the visualizations, said in a statement. “So I simulated two different scenarios, one where a camera — a stand-in for a daring astronaut — just misses the event horizon and slingshots back out, and one where it crosses the boundary, sealing its fate.”
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