- A NASA video reveals in stunning detail what falling into a black hole would look like.
- A NASA astrophysicist used Einstein’s theory of general relativity to simulate this wild ride.
- The black hole’s gravity distorts the light around it, creating a trippy experience. See for yourself.
NASA recently released a series of trippy videos showing what it would look like if you dove 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 lurking at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.
Black holes are extreme cosmic environments where gravity, time and light act differently from what we are used to on Earth.
This is what Albert Einstein predicted with his theory of general relativity in 1915: massive objects, like black holes, distort the fabric of space-time.
In these extreme conditions, things get strange: time flows differently than on Earth and light travels in strange paths, distorting your view of reality.
Einstein may have had an idea of what it would look like, but thanks to the theory of general relativity, NASA astrophysicist Jeremy Schnittman can actually show you.
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