Space is fascinating for many of us, but we'll likely never get to witness many of its mysteries firsthand. Fortunately, thanks to advancing tech, you can now watch an approximation of what it'd be like to enter one of space's biggest curiosities: the black hole That's because a new, 360-degree video shows off what it could be like to fall into a black hole.
The Nerdist reports that French visual effects artist Alessandro Roussel created the experience to show people what it'd be like in a black hole. Roussel used what's accepted as general relativity calculations to create the visuals.
Watching the video makes it look like you're traveling through a bright tunnel of blue and white light towards, well, a black hole. If you see the footage for yourself and it doesn't seem like you're actually entering the black hole, that's because the light in a black hole stretches out in front of you.
As for the last thing you'd see in a black hole, Roussel says you'd see yourself standing on a lightless planet surrounded by a circle of light, before being compressed by the black hole. That's pretty intense, if you ask us.
While the only way you'll ever experience a black hole will almost certainly be through this video, physicists said humans can safely fall into a black hole if it's large enough and completely isolated. And, this year, scientists were finally able to see the backside of a black hole, proving one of Albert Einstein's theories correct.
Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.
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The Nerdist reports that French visual effects artist Alessandro Roussel created the experience to show people what it'd be like in a black hole. Roussel used what's accepted as general relativity calculations to create the visuals.
Watching the video makes it look like you're traveling through a bright tunnel of blue and white light towards, well, a black hole. If you see the footage for yourself and it doesn't seem like you're actually entering the black hole, that's because the light in a black hole stretches out in front of you.
As for the last thing you'd see in a black hole, Roussel says you'd see yourself standing on a lightless planet surrounded by a circle of light, before being compressed by the black hole. That's pretty intense, if you ask us.
While the only way you'll ever experience a black hole will almost certainly be through this video, physicists said humans can safely fall into a black hole if it's large enough and completely isolated. And, this year, scientists were finally able to see the backside of a black hole, proving one of Albert Einstein's theories correct.
Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN. You can find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.
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