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.
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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

[@케로로-중사]

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 ​@@케로로-중사

[@MonsterJuiced]

​@케로로-중사 it fully absorbs all light inside. So we can't see anything

[@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

[@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…

[@VinzCassel]

@@videosmith419 Toda la razón amigo

[@foolishly7366]

​@@haskimaslova Slava Ukraine

[@noah-battlegroundsmobileindia]

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

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

XD

[@blazeyt6732]

Lolll

[@Aurora-uz6zm]

There’s no sound in space…..

[@noah-battlegroundsmobileindia]

@@Aurora-uz6zm sarcasm 🥲

[@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.

[@LynneMadison0731]

That's a good idea

[@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?

[@어퍼컷]

폰으로 보는데 나갈수가 없네

[@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.

[@quirrel_dynasty]

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

[@user-ZhannaPetrashevich]

потому что, это неизвестность) Неизвестность- пугает людей.

[@AndyGaskin]

confusing!

[@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

[@King_Haze]

Wow! If only i could survive infinately dense singularities!

[@esterester7853]

it's strike a fear i can't explain ✨

[@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?

[@ДмитрийАлександрович-ж6ч]

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

[@belarus2024]

Памірае....😢

[@rishhsnipes]

Beauty of existence

[@necrisro]

This would go really well with Outer Wilds theme song

[@GromaxWin]

Music name pls🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@madleon81]

Music was better than simulation 🙂

[@ASG_19]

😂 Which TikToker has made this 😅😅😅

[@Landorin]

Thank you for that! This is amazing!

[@АркадийБоос-т9б]

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

[@Tecxnomonkey]

Nice track too

[@pratikamble21]

Christofer Nolan should have created this with Hams Zimmer

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

It's TRIPPY sh** indeed

[@nomarednell5039]

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

[@mistikfolz777]

Офигенно!))))👍

[@Lol-zj1kl]

Awesome video

[@AstroTNO]

Can you try to do one with Earth

[@Nine-zz6cs]

Beautiful ❤

[@vladolfo]

What name that music?

[@usernaame316]

Looks like a nice way to end things

[@GoldenChild987]

Scary

[@bravoana]

Thankyou very much, for this experience

[@DiabloKira]

Scary...Yet beautiful

[@PushanBarman]

That's a huge MRI

[@girishchandra8996]

😂😂😂😂

[@danwoywitka]

All Engines Full Reverse!

[@JotaroKujo-xx5uu]

it's only scary to people have a strong imagine because it is

[@johnnycerezo6623]

Даже не близко. Почитайте теорию.

[@birdbro6137]

whoa, that was cool

[@gunwxr]

Watched this HIGH

[@nanupin8467]

Y la singularidad?

[@Kitadayo]

That's pretty interesting.

[@Oppyinmathalbertinphysics]

I have melanohelophobia (fear of black holes ) help

[@RockyDBeck]

wow that is crazy!!!

[@МЫШЬСМЫШЦАМИ]

Beautiful

[@UNIVERSESTUDIO-qw9ze]

Amazing

[@lastrival1315]

In short : you'll get spaghettified !!!

[@150threes2]

how does bro do this dawg

[@Polaktau]

Эти же фантазеры и на луну летали.. 😅 Плазму привезли? Или опять Хьюстон, у нас проблема

[@staytolay]

Ну да, задача бомбардировки Луны межпланетными станциями у них была выполнена так себе.

[@Dussky02]

Мне вот одно не понятно: почему после пересечения горизонта событий окружающая вселенная остаётся статичной, пусть и преломлённой? Мы знаем что все звёзды двигаются и, кажется, это движение должно быть заметным, поскольку время вблизи черной дыры почти не двигается

[@m4krozz216]

если смотреть на это со стороны простого обывателя, то нужно понимать, что за условные 3 часа, даже в ускорении, движение вряд-ли будет заметно, а также нужно помнить, что это всего лишь симуляция. плюс ко всему, наблюлатель и сам движется относительно всего вокруг.

[@leveltwognome]

Impressive

[@wweennooww]

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

[@You_Tubor]

NASA уже не то 🥲

[@maksmax555]

Как музыка называется?

[@SpiriTyler]

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

[@BasicShowTime]

WHY SO LOUD?

[@SahjalalAli-m6p]

It makes me scared

[@ing2918]

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

[@ElPapanataCarlos]

amazing

[@TattierString10]

Rip cameraman

[@Take_it_easy-t7l]

My anxiety during this video📈📈📈📈

[@user-zj8uc2hl5h]

this one move is gonna cost us 51 years

[@medkod97]

I wanna work with nasa

[@orien2v2]

Wait what happened??? It's too fast

[@riot.8392]

Lemme grab my vr headset rq

[@yewhanlim8916]

Good thing! There is ambient music in space.

[@harshjain6140]

I got motion sickness watching this

[@speedreaper666]

Ok but why show us leaving it? Everyone knows once you're in you can never return

[@musicmanxii]

Cosmic predators. Maybe when we die we find out what's beyond them.

[@Smackosynthesis]

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

[@Tapas-Nandi2024]

🎉🎉🎉ohhhhh 🎉🎉🎉

[@marcusaureliusantoninus9029]

Это размер моего кошелька... там такая же пустота

[@Egofidelis]

n2o experience

[@munterhitch3886]

I prefer Interstellar version.

[@helenmak7116]

That was really scary but also fascinating I love it 😶

[@Milagros0]

IT'S HORRIBLE AND FASCINATED!!!! 😱😱😱😱😱 👁️👄👁️

[@andbitfor]

와~~우~~~

[@Егор-ц5з3ъ]

Very scary

[@theuncanspan]

Half Life: Portal

[@bid0u12345]

Outer Wilds

[@Cyborgsm]

WE TWEAKING BRO

[@Glouzz]

Как будто схлопывает и переворачивает твой взгляд

[@lussi4255]

i got nausea from this

[@23E]

❤❤❤❤😮😮😮😮😮😮🎉

[@andresantorumofc]

Que doideira

[@haircolor]

와우

[@rosanafonseca5804]

Magnífico, xie xie ! 🤩🤩

[@tackuyumcu2626]

😮😮

[@taurinorum]

Sauron

[@haskimaslova]

Теперь наса рисует мультики?😂

[@zebrazebra5]

Офигенно

[@baltabello3791]

Una simulación no es real y esta muy lejos de lo real.

[@luckfishing]

У меня такое часто траплялось по малолетству после пару стаканов вина

[@Jesusislife707]

Don't prepare, be prepared. Jesus Christ is coming back!💞

[@mb5223]

Nešto vam ova rupa plitka,trebali ste dublje da kopate

[@fernando.casthro]

Fala sério

[@jorgeaf7624]

Eso ya se vio en la película Interestelar 😅

[@jasonstatham483]

That's photoshop. Human couldn't record that and return back to show us this.

[@Merku808]

no its PowerPoint

[@roundclock7056]

It's been curving time and again..😂😂😂

[@BlackoutVIP]

That's all 🧢 I've been inside one