NASA has shown what would happen if a person fell into a black hole through an immersive graphic representation produced by a supercomputer shared this Monday on its YouTube channel.
In a statement, the US space agency explains that, as the camera approaches the black hole, reaching speeds increasingly closer to that of light, the brightness of the accretion disk and the stars in the background is amplified accordingly. mode that increases the pitch of the sound of an approaching racing car.
The video begins with the camera located almost 400 million miles away and the black hole quickly filling the view. The black hole’s disk, photon rings, and night sky become increasingly distorted and even form multiple images as its light passes through the increasingly warped space-time.
“Once the camera crosses the horizon, its spaghettizing destruction occurs in just 12.8 seconds,” said Jeremy Schnittman, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who created the simulation. «From there, it is only 128,000 kilometers to the singularity. “This final leg of the journey is over in the blink of an eye,” he added.