NASA Simulation’s Plunge Into 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 — enters the event horizon, sealing its fate.

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: “Tidal Force,” Thomas Daniel Bellingham [PRS], Universal Production Music

“Memories” from Digital Juice

“Path Finder,” Eric Jacobsen [TONO] and 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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If you listen closely, you can hear "Murph! Murph!!!"

thezcamaroman
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Ok, I am going to watch this about 20 times. Then spend I don’t know how many years trying to really understand it. What I am amazed by is how there are people out there who really do understand it and who can build these super computers to do these simulations.

KimClark-
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Watching this isnt gonna cost me 51 years is it?

manangandhi
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Now that's a view to die for. Literally

cfgknef
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Would love to see it with 360° mode enabled…

MrRobertFerrell
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What an extraordinary universe we live in. Beautiful, wonderful, awesome

heptadecagon
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This is a static blackhole. Once you get one spinning with a nicely formed ergosphere, things get real crazy

RossAlexanderSmith
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I love it when 'trippy' flicks are exactly '4:20.'

I see you, NASA... Nice play.

inkthomson
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This is much more realistic than that Disney movie and that Soundgarden music video

Krellan
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4:20 I know that’s right. I gotta be high to even begin to think about thinking about how this works

tminusfivetwu
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Gonna have to watch this a few more times 😂

crispy
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You have just fulfilled my (and many people's) dream. Thank you 🤩🙌

caprica
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This is superb thank you! I’ve always wondered about this since watching interstellar

aamirrazak
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Thank you so much for doing this!!! It’s beautiful!!

amplethought
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Yes I absolutely have wondered that, thank you, this blows my mind

Hurriicane
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4:20 huh? I wouldn't have it any other way.

noonionsplease
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Funny how so many near death experiences involve perception of travelling through a tunnel.

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