A NASA video reveals in stunning detail what falling into a black hole would look like.A NASA astrophysicist used Einstein’s general theory of relativity to simulate the wild ride. The black hole’s gravity warps light around it, making for a trippy experience. See for yourself.
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NASA recently released a series of trippy videos showing what it would look like if you plunged into a black hole. But not just any black hole — a supermassive black hole with 4.3 million times the mass of our sun. That’s about the size of the giant black hole that lurks at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.Black holes are extreme cosmic environments where gravity, time, and light act differently from what we’re used to on Earth.
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That’s what Albert Einstein predicted with his general theory of relativity in 1915: that massive objects, like black holes, warp the fabric of space-time.Under those extreme conditions, things get weird: time ticks by differently than on Earth and light travels on strange paths, warping your view of reality.Einstein may have had an idea of what that would look like, but now using the theory of general relativity, NASA astrophysicist Jeremy Schnittman can actually show you.
