360 Video: NASA Simulation Shows a Flight Around a Black Hole

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. This version is a 360-degree video that lets viewers look all around during the trip.
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.
Read more: science.nasa.gov/supermassive...
Music credit: "Beautiful Awesome,” David Husband and James William Banbury [PRS], 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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[@yuukashima3902]

That jet black darkness staring right at me is quite scary

[@_keroro_]

Is this faster than light in there? So we can't see anything?

[@Ivan-gz2tg]

ТАМ ЛОГОВО САТАНЫ

[@anonymoushumankind]

No, it absorbs all light, therefore none can reflect back at you ​@@_keroro_

[@Rodri-mj2kh]

Why does this feel scary , like my instinct kicks in to avoid this

[@Rohan25]

Yeah same

[@paulpaul455]

me too

[@frankrentzsch5538]

Weird. I just want to dive in

[@CartoonSlug]

Cause you're an idiот

[@AndrewPearsonFashion]

It's like slowly sinking underwater

[@noah-battlegroundsmobileindia]

Atleast I'll be listening to some music while Im falling, that certain.

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

XD

[@himeoftwili]

Oh I haaate this.. Black Holes are such a fascinating part of space, and i find them insanely cool, but man do they unlock a deep fear within me.

[@haskimaslova]

Ты это испытаешь в момент смерти,иди в страх

[@videosmith419]

English comment, responds in russian…

[@HiCARTIER]

@@videosmith419 Good thing we have Google Translate. His comment is profound

[@VinzCassel]

@@videosmith419 Toda la razón amigo

[@foolishly7366]

​@@haskimaslova Slava Ukraine

[@babayaga1603]

It's like a deep state of meditation where you will find nobody

[@magewings7697]

I know what you mean. been there

[@AngelusVox]

Or everybody

[@vikramsc]

Slowed it down to 0.5, music off, using VR, it genuinely felt scary for a moment.

[@dgfhszdr]

Thanks for spending some Discovery time for our edutainment. Have you, or would you consider running it in other spectra, or visualising gamma emissions / Hawking etc?

[@arushigoel9024]

Oddly this doesn't scare me. I think if I could just experience this, see this in reality, I would go even if I could never come back

[@Literallogicz]

me too!

[@sakshamnarvar]

same

[@mangoneko4007]

same, it seems very peaceful. I would love to dive right in like its a pool.

[@imjensen]

Like I nearly went down a cosmic drain. Beautiful.

[@어퍼컷]

폰으로 보는데 나갈수가 없네

[@AndyGaskin]

confusing!

[@dixielovekamp9623]

I love this kind of stuff. I could watch this all day

[@Cherri_balm]

i think it’s a bit odd how people find this simulation scary. to me it’s quite comforting. black holes are friend shaped :3

[@genericgymvlogsph9739]

Absolutely amazing!!! Thank you for everything you do NASA!!

[@Mcminecraft100]

Im confused why people find it scary?, i think it looks cool.

[@user-ZhannaPetrashevich]

потому что, это неизвестность) Неизвестность- пугает людей.

[@SauloSantiagoconteudoviral]

Deve ser uma super experiência ver isso em realidade virtual. 😮😁

[@korak_korek]

it made me feel goosebump. how small we are in this universe

[@rrfxkz]

Beauty of existence

[@Landorin]

Thank you for that! This is amazing!

[@esterester7853]

it's strike a fear i can't explain ✨

[@himalayanwizard]

I was in loop for whole night

[@Sent-Elias]

Меня это почему то не пугает. Захватывает, создает состояние невесомости и полета, увлекает до самых пяток)).До крутейшего восторга!!!Но у меня вопрос, в итоге то, куда наблюдатель попадает? В антивселенную?

[@user-jm6iv1ny9g]

Да это фантазия группы фантазеров, нет там ни какого искривление пространства и времени обычный вихрь на подобии смерча

[@belarus2024]

Памірае....😢

[@Nine-zz6cs]

Beautiful ❤

[@necrisro]

This would go really well with Outer Wilds theme song

[@Kitadayo]

That's pretty interesting.

[@leveltwognome]

Impressive

[@bravoana]

Thankyou very much, for this experience

[@marciobueno5471]

Amazing......

[@8randomprettysecret8]

Cool yet deeply unsettling

[@GoldenChild987]

Scary

[@mistikfolz777]

Офигенно!))))👍

[@Schizoid137]

So cool

[@Rmm1722]

Awesome 😅😮

[@CurtMudgeon]

Thanks!

[@thenutz7024]

Wow… that’s crazy

[@tatis2599]

Faltou um corrimão na entrada para evitar acidentes.

[@vinodhrpadmakumar704]

Awesome

[@user-vs9kp3vo2d]

Scary...Yet beautiful

[@user-kj8nj1rr3c]

Beautiful

[@Adrian_Fernando]

Wow!

[@framitx1968]

Phantastisch

[@birdbro6137]

whoa, that was cool

[@vladolfo]

What name that music?

[@TechSkill-ED]

Why this is scary to me!?
I just made a mistake of clicking that we are vr option it scared me so badly

[@tommyd17]

This is pretty close!

[@RockyDBeck]

wow that is crazy!!!

[@user-vt5is4ys4j]

I wish i could do that

[@GromaxWin]

Music name pls🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@alekseibelov4115]

Gravitation would smash us there

[@nomarednell5039]

I see that at NASA they smoke good stuff...

[@nanupin8467]

Y la singularidad?

[@edouardnicoud179]

So much like in Interstellar !
With poorer definition though :D

[@bred1171]

I want to go there

[@realsammyt]

lovely

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

It's TRIPPY sh** indeed

[@WilbertBernadiTomoh]

Good.

[@andbitfor]

와~~우~~~

[@AstroTNO]

Can you try to do one with Earth

[@ElPapanataCarlos]

amazing

[@pratikamble21]

Christofer Nolan should have created this with Hams Zimmer

[@danwoywitka]

All Engines Full Reverse!

[@madleon81]

Music was better than simulation 🙂

[@ASG_19]

😂
Which TikToker has made this 😅😅😅

[@haircolor]

와우

[@user-tf1xh2oe4l]

Может стоит подкрасить зоны искажения "пространства" внутри чёрной дыры, может там есть "существенная" разница в "плотности"?

[@BasicShowTime]

WHY SO LOUD?

[@JuanluGarcia]

Home sweet home

[@agenlab]

Could anybody can explain what they want to say?

[@mogamal3935]

👌 wow

[@shubhammitra4227]

Yeah been there done that

[@tackuyumcu2626]

😮😮

[@harshjain6140]

I got motion sickness watching this

[@maksmax555]

Как музыка называется?

[@Tapas-Nandi2024]

🎉🎉🎉ohhhhh 🎉🎉🎉

[@andrecortesfulltime]

Que doideira

[@zebrazebra5]

Офигенно

[@vansnow_]

Well.. what did I expect

[@PushanBarman]

That's a huge MRI

[@girishchandra8996]

😂😂😂😂

[@factsguy4582]

I have melanohelophobia (fear of black holes ) help

[@23.5]

❤❤❤❤😮😮😮😮😮😮🎉

[@luisplaysnowyt]

I can't believe that they got a camera to Sagittarius A* and filmed it and posted it into yt

[@Loljustshutup]

Это было действительно странно. Но меня не напугало.

[@user-fm8fc7gv5x]

Conversation day 1: How many stars and planets it wipe out upto now 😊

[@user-qm1jr2gl8i]

Very scary

[@antitus00]

No pude ver a Murph 🤷‍♂

[@SolarArgent]

Why does my body try to tell me to escape this like it knows exactly whats going to happen to it😭

[@medkod97]

I wanna work with nasa

[@user-zj8uc2hl5h]

this one move is gonna cost us 51 years

[@K4MU1.G4CKP01d]

my biggest question: would it hurt??? it looks kinda peaceful but i know i'd be flailing if this happened irl

[@orien2v2]

Wait what happened??? It's too fast

[@Wassup-Doc]

Elite Dangerous !

[@johnnycerezo6623]

Даже не близко. Почитайте теорию.

[@rosanafonseca5804]

Magnífico, xie xie ! 🤩🤩

[@user-dk1cq5vr8o]

My anxiety during this video📈📈📈📈

[@You_Tubor]

NASA уже не то 🥲

[@lastrival1315]

In short : you'll get spaghettified !!!

[@marcusaureliusantoninus9029]

Это размер моего кошелька... там такая же пустота

[@Smackosynthesis]

Well how tf did i come back out of it???

[@haretakage]

Doesn’t this show that there is in fact, another side?

[@Egofidelis]

n2o experience

[@ing2918]

His eyes would pop out of his head and that's all he would see