What would happen if you traveled inside a black hole?
Like a great science fiction movie you can imagine a disastrous or exciting scenario, or both. However, you no longer have to leave it alone to your imagination, since Jeremy Schmittman, NASA astrophysicist, has answered this fascinating question with a shocking simulation, so pay close attention.
Black holes are one of the great enigmas most studied by astronomers and scientists, which have made all astronomy lovers curious, due to their extravagant sizes, images, their mysterious matter that makes them up, and chaotic destinies that are evaluated if one would approach them.
In real life, traveling inside a black hole is impossible, not even with a ship with advanced technology or a small camera, because nothing can escape from its interior, not even light, everything stays inside its mysterious entrails.
In addition, with a simple approach everything is completely destroyed, causing a phenomenon known as spaghettification, because the force of gravitational attraction is much greater than the cohesive forces of the particles of the object, causing its immediate elongation.
Schmittman mentioned in a statement to NASA that “People often ask about this (falling into black holes), and simulating these hard-to-imagine processes helps me connect the mathematics of relativity with real consequences in the real universe.».
This simulation was carried out in approximately 5 days, using a supercomputer, the famous Discover at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, using only 0.3% of its power, and generating approximately 10 terabytes of data.
In the NASA statement they explain that this simulation is amazing, since, if it had been carried out on a normal computer, it would take approximately more than a decade to publish it.
For the simulation, Schmittman proposed a supermassive black hole with a mass of 4.3 million times that of the Sun and an event horizon of 25 million kilometers, very similar to the black hole found in the center of the Milky Way, our galaxy. .
With these data, spaghettification would be caused to happen just when entering the interior of the black hole and not when approaching.
In the simulation, Schmittman shows a video camera, as a substitute for an astronaut, traveling to the edge of a black hole and falling inside, with a 360-degree panorama and flat maps of space.
Where you initially see how the camera slowly approaches the focus of the black hole. Just before entering, the accretion disk is shown, in which radiation and matter are observed rotating; Also, in the center we observe the ring of photons, made up of the bright light around it. The camera is subsequently destroyed within seconds.
«Once the camera crosses the horizon, its spaghettified destruction is just 12.8 seconds away. From there, it is only 128 thousand kilometers to the singularity (the center of the hole). This last leg of the journey ends in the blink of an eye.Schnittman mentioned.
This simulation video is available on the YouTube platform and has a duration of 4 minutes and 20 seconds, which summarizes the trajectory of more than 3 hours than if the event happened in real time. Also, the NASA statement shows a deep and simple explanation of each event that we see in the video.
This simulation is a simple way to explain what would really happen if you traveled in a black hole, showing the shocking phenomena of space-time, which, as we mentioned before, is not possible in real life.
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