What would happen if you fell into a black hole? NASA simulation imagines what it would be like to plunge beyond the point of no return - with terrifying results
It's thought getting sucked into a black hole would be one of the most painful deaths in the universe. The clip, produced on a NASA supercomputer, shows a first-person plunge towards a supermassive black hole's 'event horizon' – its dreaded point of no return. Now, thanks to a new animation from NASA, viewers can plunge into the event horizon, a black hole's point of no return As the video begins and the 'camera' approaches the void, we can see the bright orange 'accretion disk' with a starry galaxy in the backround What are black holes? As the video begins and the 'camera' approaches the void, we can see the bright orange 'accretion disk' – a hot disk of gas orbiting the black hole and its main source of light. Inside the black hole: The bright orange 'accretion disk' and the photon sphere - the thin ring of light appearing at the edge of the event horizon shadow An annotated black hole: Right at the centre is the event horizon - the point at which nothing, not even light, can escape The simulated black hole’s event horizon spans about 16 million miles, or about 17 per cent of the distance from Earth to our sun.
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