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What Would It Look Like To Fall Into a Black Hole?

Posted by timothy on from the phrase-your-answer-in-wine-review-terms dept.

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."

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  1. I thought it was April 2? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    How did a Goatse story get on the front page?

  2. Huh? by Jack9 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't assume you see red grid lines?

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    1. Re:Huh? by interkin3tic · · Score: 5, Funny

      I would have assumed you would see a completely black grid on a completely black background.

    2. Re:Huh? by lastchance_000 · · Score: 5, Funny

      You'll probably be eaten by a grue.

  3. What it's like by BobGregg · · Score: 5, Funny

    I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama.

    I think it's a lot like that.

  4. Re:How does it feel? by An+ominous+Cow+art · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but you have to get out while you're young, if you're a tramp who was born to run.