Falling into a black hole: NASA showed a mind-blowing animation (video)

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you fell into a black hole? We at the NEWS.am Tech editorial team were wondering and prepared a video about it. Now NASA specialists have also prepared an animated video about falling into a black hole.

The visualization, created on a NASA supercomputer, takes the viewer on a one-way journey beyond the event horizon of a black hole. This outer boundary of a black hole marks the point at which not even light travels fast enough to escape the black hole's intense gravitational pull. This is why the event horizon is considered the point of no return - today it is considered impossible to obtain information about anything that has crossed this point.

"People often ask about this, and simulating these difficult-to-imagine processes helps me connect the mathematics of relativity to actual consequences in the real universe," creator of the visualizations Jeremy Schnittman, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said in a statement. 

"So I simulated two different scenarios, one where a camera — a stand-in for a daring astronaut — just misses the event horizon and slingshots back out, and one where it crosses the boundary, sealing its fate."