What would we see if we fell into a Black Hole?
What it is
ScienceClic visualizes what you would see falling into a black hole, from the approach and the accretion disc to crossing the horizon, in 15 minutes.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a great visual explanation of the infall experience, including when spaghettification happens.
- 1 people recommended it
- 1 different months
- 1 strong recommendations
- first 2022, last 2025
What HN commenters said
“see this great YouTube video of what you would see if you fell into a Black Hole.”
Explains what you would see falling into a black hole.
bocytron, 2022-03 · Strong recommendation · in “Visualizing black holes with general relativistic ray tracing”
Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.
Topics: event horizon, general relativity, visualization, spaghettification, accretion disc
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