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<\/div>We’re Going in<\/strong><\/h2>Finally, modern technology has made it possible for us to live out our childhood dreams and dive head-first into a black hole. Or, at the very least, a new 360-degree video lets us see what it would look like before the incredible gravitational pull tore us to shreds.<\/p>
A team of physicists out of Radboud University in The Netherlands and the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Germany created an immersive video that accurately simulates Sagittarius A*, the black hole that’s slowly eating the Milky Way<\/a> from the inside out.<\/p>Family Fun<\/strong><\/h2>The researchers hope the simulation, published Monday in the journal Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology<\/a><\/em>, will help educate people of all ages about how black holes really work. As the video shows, black holes like Sagittarius A* are dynamic hubs of cosmic activity, not silent spheres of nothingness that sit around and occasionally gulp down a wayward star or planet.<\/p>Video credit: J.Davelaar 2018<\/em><\/p>Eye of the Storm<\/strong><\/h2>In the video, which can be watched with or without a virtual reality headset, the audience is dragged along by Sagittarius A*’s gravitational pull. It brings people closer and closer to the black hole<\/a>, which rests in the middle of what looks like a gigantic, fiery tornado.<\/p>But there’s no “if you die in the Matrix, you die in real life” moment here — before the audience is plunged into the black hole, the audience is catapulted backward, rocketing away until Sagittarius A* fades from their view altogether.<\/p>
READ MORE:<\/strong> Researchers have created a virtual reality simulation of a supermassive black hole<\/a> [Phys.org<\/em>]<\/p>More on black holes: When Galaxies Merge, the Black Holes in Their Hearts Fuse Together<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>The post 360-Degree Video Shows What It’s Like to Fall Into a Black Hole<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>Follow this link:
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Family Fun<\/strong><\/h2>The researchers hope the simulation, published Monday in the journal Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology<\/a><\/em>, will help educate people of all ages about how black holes really work. As the video shows, black holes like Sagittarius A* are dynamic hubs of cosmic activity, not silent spheres of nothingness that sit around and occasionally gulp down a wayward star or planet.<\/p>Video credit: J.Davelaar 2018<\/em><\/p>Eye of the Storm<\/strong><\/h2>In the video, which can be watched with or without a virtual reality headset, the audience is dragged along by Sagittarius A*’s gravitational pull. It brings people closer and closer to the black hole<\/a>, which rests in the middle of what looks like a gigantic, fiery tornado.<\/p>But there’s no “if you die in the Matrix, you die in real life” moment here — before the audience is plunged into the black hole, the audience is catapulted backward, rocketing away until Sagittarius A* fades from their view altogether.<\/p>
READ MORE:<\/strong> Researchers have created a virtual reality simulation of a supermassive black hole<\/a> [Phys.org<\/em>]<\/p>More on black holes: When Galaxies Merge, the Black Holes in Their Hearts Fuse Together<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>The post 360-Degree Video Shows What It’s Like to Fall Into a Black Hole<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>Follow this link:
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Video credit: J.Davelaar 2018<\/em><\/p> In the video, which can be watched with or without a virtual reality headset, the audience is dragged along by Sagittarius A*’s gravitational pull. It brings people closer and closer to the black hole<\/a>, which rests in the middle of what looks like a gigantic, fiery tornado.<\/p> But there’s no “if you die in the Matrix, you die in real life” moment here — before the audience is plunged into the black hole, the audience is catapulted backward, rocketing away until Sagittarius A* fades from their view altogether.<\/p> READ MORE:<\/strong> Researchers have created a virtual reality simulation of a supermassive black hole<\/a> [Phys.org<\/em>]<\/p> More on black holes: When Galaxies Merge, the Black Holes in Their Hearts Fuse Together<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p> The post 360-Degree Video Shows What It’s Like to Fall Into a Black Hole<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Follow this link: We\u2019re Going in Finally, modern technology has\u00a0made it possible for us to live out our childhood dreams and dive head-first into a black hole. Continue reading Eye of the Storm<\/strong><\/h2>
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