What Would It Look Like To Fall Into a Black Hole? 154
CNETNate writes "A new video simulation developed by Andrew Hamilton and Gavin Polhemus of the University of Colorado, Boulder, on New Scientist today, shows what you might see on your way towards a black hole's crushing central singularity. Hamilton and Polhemus built a computer code based on the equations of Einstein's general theory of relativity, and the video produced allows the viewer to follow the fate of an imaginary observer on an orbit that swoops down into a giant black hole weighing 5 million times the mass of the sun, about the same size as the hole in the centre of our galaxy. The research could help physicists understand the apparently paradoxical fate of matter and energy in a black hole."
I thought it was April 2? (Score:5, Funny)
How did a Goatse story get on the front page?
Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
I don't assume you see red grid lines?
hmm, I see (Score:5, Funny)
So falling into a black hole looks and awful lot like a slashdotting. Good to know!
What does it look like? (Score:5, Funny)
It looks like you are seriously fucked.
What it's like (Score:5, Funny)
I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama.
I think it's a lot like that.
I already saw it (Score:3, Funny)
back in 1979.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078869/ [imdb.com]
man, that V.I.N.CENT. was such a character!
Re:Huh? (Score:4, Funny)
Probably while your still pretty far away, you see a white light, and ancestors calling.
Simpsons Did It (Score:4, Funny)
Simpsons did it [wikipedia.org]
How does it feel? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
I would have assumed you would see a completely black grid on a completely black background.
Re:How does it feel? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but you have to get out while you're young, if you're a tramp who was born to run.
Re:hmm, I see (Score:2, Funny)
The Slashdot Paradox:
Getting first post on Slashdot while falling into a black hole.
Cynical phycisists might call that an extremely slow news day.
Other physicists might remark that now there are 2 things which can escape from a black hole: Hawking radiation and Slashdot posts.
erm... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Simpsons Did It (Score:3, Funny)
Don't say "Simpsons did it", Southpark already did that [wikipedia.org].
Re:hmm, I see (Score:5, Funny)
There's an alternate simulation here. [youtube.com]
Re:What it's like (Score:5, Funny)
$ /usr/games/bsd/nethole
** You are in a maze of twisty little distorted images, all alike.
** You have been eaten by an event horizon.
$ # dammit
Re:What does it look like? (Score:4, Funny)
What actually transpires beneath the veil of an event horizon? Decent people shouldn't think too much about that.
Academician Prokhor Zakharov
"For I Have Tasted The Fruit"
Re:hmm, I see (Score:3, Funny)
Another simulation here. [strimoo.com]
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How does it feel? (Score:3, Funny)
There's always Hawking Radiation.
So that's the source of that Jersey smell?
Re:Huh? (Score:2, Funny)