Falling Into a Black Hole

So if you've ever wondered what it might look like to fall into a Black Hole, wonder no longer! From an article at New Scientist, researchers at the University of Colorado - Boulder

built a computer code based on the equations of Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes gravity as a distortion of space and time.

They 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.

[Note: There are more details on what exactly is happening in the video in the article linked above.]


Thanks to Mr. Jue over at the fledgling STEMpowerment blog for the article.