Wonder how it feels to plunge into a black hole? NASA's visuals will shock you
Hindustan TimesIn an interesting development, NASA has given us a look into what might happen if we were to fall into a black hole. “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.” In the first simulation, the viewer approaches the black hole from about 400 million miles away. NASA describes a black hole as an area “of such immense gravity that nothing -- not even light -- can escape from it.” Schnittman teamed up with Goddard scientist Brian Powell to create the visualisations. “The destination is a supermassive black hole with 4.3 million times the mass of our Sun, equivalent to the monster located at the center of our Milky Way galaxy,” said NASA. “If an astronaut flew a spacecraft on this 6-hour round trip while her colleagues on a mothership remained far from the black hole, she’d return 36 minutes younger than her colleagues,” NASA said.
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