NASA Simulation’s Flight Around a Black Hole: Explained

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This new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera — a stand-in for a daring astronaut — just misses the event horizon and slingshots back out.

Goddard scientists created the visualizations on the Discover supercomputer at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation.

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. To simplify the complex calculations, the black hole is not rotating.

A flat, swirling cloud of hot, glowing gas called an accretion disk surrounds the black hole and serves as a visual reference during the fall. So do glowing structures called photon rings, which form closer to the black hole from light that has orbited it one or more times. A backdrop of the starry sky as seen from Earth completes the scene.

The project generated about 10 terabytes of data — equivalent to roughly half of the estimated text content in the Library of Congress — and took about 5 days running on just 0.3% of Discover’s 129,000 processors. The same feat would take more than a decade on a typical laptop.

Music credit: "Beautiful Awesome,” David Husband and James William Banbury [PRS], Universal Production Music

“Awakening Yearning,” David Ashok Ramani and Jonathan Elias [ASCAP], Universal Production Music

“Dawning,” Lorenzo Castellarin [BMI], Universal Production Music

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center /J. Schnittman and B. Powell
Producer: Scott Wiessinger (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
Visualizer:Jeremy Schnittman (NASA/GSFC)
Science writer: Francis Reddy (University of Maryland College Park)
Computer support: Brian Powell (NASA/GSFC)
Editor: Scott Wiessinger (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)

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침대에 누워서 블랙홀 내부로 들어가는 체험을 하게 되는 시대가 오다니

Steeloisfemale
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At that speed, colors should look different, right?

SoloSart
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Ojalá el día de nuestra muerte brevemente el universo nos regale un poco de sus secretos! Quiero creer que en ese momento sabremos la verdad sobre esta inmensidad

la_carba
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00:30 and forward is exactly what I see when Im rubbing my eyes a little to much😵‍💫

SamiK
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3:18 why didn't you use 100% of its processing power and simulate it in minutes ?

karanarora
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I was afraid of blackholes and its power till now thanks for taking that away its beauty ❤

SruTalks
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У меня в детстве такой скринсейвер на 95й Винде был

Shmalnaya_imperatritsa
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if only we funded NASA more than our military

denizakman
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Нечто подобное можно увидеть в стеклянном шарике, катая его по столу.

kogo
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Imma Buy a vr just for this HOLY FREAK

Hackanhacker
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Читайте, ,Розу Мира, , Даниила Андреева-там еще подробнее ВСЁ описано!

opsqmuo
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Can we go for a walk there? It's so beutiful 😂

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