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KOMPAS.com – The United States Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released a video that resembles what it would be like to be slammed into a black hole.
A black hole is an area in space that has a gravitational force so strong that even light cannot escape, reported the BBC.
The simulation was processed by NASA’s supercomputer in five days, but if you use a laptop every day, it would take 10 years.
Jeremy Schnittman, an astronomer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who created the visualization, said the visualization allows users to experience a flight toward a supermassive black hole. .
The simulation surrounds the black hole and crosses the event horizon, also known as the “point of no return”.
The event horizon is the limit where events cannot affect observers.
This scene combines immersive graphics with detailed event physics.
“People often ask about this, and simulating this difficult, difficult-to-imagine process helps me connect the mathematics of relativity to real outcomes in the real world,” Schnittman said. , which was cited from NASA’s official website.
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Scenes are available on YouTube
Footage of entering the black hole can be seen on YouTube as explainer videos or 360-degree videos that allow viewers to put themselves at the center of everything.
To create the vision, Schnittman worked with Goddard scientist Brian Powell and used the Discover supercomputer at NASA’s Climate Simulation Center.
The project generated approximately 10 terabytes of data, equivalent to approximately half of the estimated textual content in the Library of Congress.
The process took about 5 days using only 0.3 percent of Discover’s 129,000 processors.
The black hole used in the scene is 4.3 million times the mass of the sun in the solar system or the same as a black hole in the Milky Way galaxy, CBS News reported.
Meanwhile, the event horizon of the symbolic black hole is about 16 million miles (25 million kilometers) wide, or about 17 percent of the Earth-Sun distance.
Observers can see large flat clouds filled with hot gas and glowing structures called photon rings.
Then, the simulated camera moves close to the speed of light, enhancing the light from the structure, and making it look brighter and brighter, even as the structure is rotated by the observer.
Schnittman said it was important to focus the simulations on supermassive black holes, as they would have the greatest impact.
“If you had a choice, you’d want to fall into a supermassive black hole,” Schnittman said.
“Stellar-mass black holes, which have a mass of about 30 solar masses, have much smaller event horizons and stronger tidal forces, which can tear apart approaching objects before they reach the horizon,” he continued.
This happens because the gravitational pull at the end of the object closer to the black hole is much stronger than at the other end.
Falling objects stretch like noodles, a process astronomers call spaghettification.
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2024-05-13 14:30:00
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