built a computer code based on the equations of Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes gravity as a distortion of space and time.[Note: There are more details on what exactly is happening in the video in the article linked above.]
They follow the fate of an imaginary observer on an orbit that swoops down into a giant black hole weighing 5 million times the mass of the sun, about the same size as the hole in the centre of our galaxy.
[Cross-posted at Roland's Miscellany.]
Posts
Wow. There is so much math going on in this video, but it is also amazing how the effect is similar to entering Streetview scenarios. The idea of a "virtual world" whose event horizon you are sucked into. It is also very interesting in the context of the problem of other minds, as seeing into somebody else's event horizon seems to be the boundary that must be crossed. This simulation seems to be what such a crossing would look like.
ReplyDeleteThe final step into the event horizon seems to be when you get to the singularity.