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Credit & Copyright: NASA's
GSFC,
J. Schnittman &
B. Powell;
Text:
Francis Reddy
(U. Maryland,
NASA's GSFC)
Explanation:
What would it look like to plunge into a monster black hole?
This image from a
supercomputer visualization
shows the entire sky as seen from a
simulated camera
plunging toward a 4-million-solar-mass black hole, similar to the
one at the center of our galaxy.
The camera lies about 16 million kilometers from the
black holeÁs
event horizon and is moving inward at 62% the
speed of light.
Thanks to
gravityÁs funhouse effects, the
starry band of the
Milky Way appears both as a compact loop at the
top of this view and as a secondary image
stretching across the bottom.
Move the cursor over the image for additional explanations.
Visualizations like this allow astronomers to explore
black holes in ways not otherwise possible.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: black hole - accretion disk
Publications with words: black hole - accretion disk
See also:
- APOD: 2025 September 24 Á GW250114: Rotating Black Holes Collide
- APOD: 2025 May 9 Á IXPE Explores a Black Hole Jet
- APOD: 2025 May 6 Á The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
- APOD: 2025 May 4 Á Spin up of a Supermassive Black Hole
- APOD: 2024 November 24 Á Journey to the Center of the Galaxy
- APOD: 2024 October 1 Á Porphyrion: The Longest Known Black Hole Jets
- APOD: 2024 June 16 Á Animation: Black Hole Destroys Star